Across
- 1. to weave a raised design into cloth
- 6. family descent - family tree
- 7. decode; to make out the meaning of something
- 9. c.800BC to AD1224 - Maya city - "The opening of the well of the Itza"
- 11. Maya calendar of 260 days - used to fortell the future and avoid bad luck
- 12. something set up to keep alive the memory of a person or event, as a tablet or statue
- 13. a nonscientific claim that the moon, sun, and stars affect human affairs and can be used to fortell the future
- 14. Maya calendar for 365 days
- 15. the Itza name for the Mexican god, Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent
Down
- 2. a style of design and construction
- 3. a gradual wearing away
- 4. underground limestone sinkhole
- 5. the act of attaining a throne or coming into power
- 8. a group of states or territories under one ruler
- 10. to desert
- 13. the science that deals with the origin, size, motion etc. of the stars and planets