Across
- 1. a multi-tiered wooden tower, used as a sacred Buddhist repository for relics and scriptures
- 6. A narrow strip of land, bordered by water on both sides, that connects two larger landmasses
- 7. A member of the people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century
- 8. The capital of the ancient Aztec empire, situated in the Valley of Mexico on an island in a large lake
- 10. A traditional Japanese gate, usually painted vermillion red
- 11. The indegenous people, languages, and culture of Mesoamerica
- 13. Small; stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes
Down
- 2. The world's largest continental mountain range
- 3. The indigenous, animistic spirituality of Japan
- 4. An ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways
- 5. Navel of the world, symbolizing its role as the center of the Incan Empire
- 7. The attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena
- 9. Farming An agricultural technique that shapes steep, sloped, or hilly terrain into multiple, stepped, flat levels to cultivate crops.
- 12. Relating to the Inca Empire, its people, or their culture, typically referring to the indigenous civilization that ruled ancient Peru