Across
- The name for a Spanish explorer, treasure hunter, and conqueror
- The Maya played a rubber ball game in a large ball ____ surrounded by large stone walls
- He conquered the Aztec Empire
- The people who conquered the Aztecs and the Inca
- Modern day country where the Inca lived
- The title for the king of the Aztecs
- A vegetable like corn
- The king of the Inca was called the ____ Inca
- Modern day country where the Aztecs lived
- The Maya _____ predicted the end of the world on December 21, 2012
- A book made from a number of pages folded up in a zig-zag pattern
- Francisco _____ conquered the Inca Empire
- Language spoken by the Aztecs
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- This famous food came from the Americas and the cacao seed
- The Inca built these throughout their Empire to enable communication by message runners
- Type of writing used by the Maya that used picture words or “glyphs”
- ____ Picchu was a hidden city of the Inca was never discovered by the Spanish
- King of the Aztecs when the Spanish arrived
- The Hero ____ were the subjects of a favorite mythological story told by the Maya
- An infectious disease brought by the Europeans that killed many of the Native Americans
- Tenochtitlan was the capital city of this
- A monument made by the Aztecs and Maya with a temple on top to their gods
- El ____ is a famous pyramid found in the Maya city of Chichen Itza
- The Inca had to pay a labor ___ to the government each year
- The Inca god Inti was god of the ____
- Capital city of the Inca Empire
- The basic unit of the Inca community
- The Aztec, Maya, and Inca did not make use of this round invention
- Powerful Empire in South America when the Spanish arrived
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