Vocabulary Review

1. This other name for corn was a staple in Mesoamerican diet
5. This Aztec god was worshipped through human sacrifice, also known as the Lord of the Sun to the Aztecs
7. The Aztecs would take conquered people and use them for this, to appease the gods
10. The land bridge that early people used to travel to the Americas
13. This explorer when to South America and destroyed the Incan people
15. This group of native people allied with the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs
16. This was the golden example of Aztec cities
18. This Mayan invention predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012

2. This group of mesoamericans developed an advanced society in Oaxaca
3. This native woman was used as a translator for the Spanish during the conquest in the New World
4. This was the major city of the Zapotec
6. This area stretches from central Mexico to Northern Honduras
8. This spanish explorer invaded and defeated the Aztec people
9. This is the major city built by the Olmec people
11. the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops between the New World and Europe following Christopher Columbus
12. First known civilization builders were a people known as what
14. Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-Christian people
17. Olmecs were known to carve large sized _______