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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
Down
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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