Key Terms Crossword

"Middle America", a cultural region made up of Mexico and Central America, where some of the earliest civilization developed.
Native American word for corn.
Considered the 1st American civilization, emerged in the fertile coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico.
Tall stone monuments.
A civilization in Mexico around AD 1200.
The capital city founded by the Aztecs in AD 1325.
The ancient civilization developed around the same time as the Olmec.
Artificial islands made of mud piled atop reed mats anchored in shallow lake-bed with willow trees.
Payment from conquered people.
A city that dominated life in the valley of Mexico from AD 200 to AD 750.
The earliest civilization in the Andes Region.
The people in the northern coast of Peru.
The mixture of clay and plant fibers that dries in the sun.
The people living along the southern coast of Peru between 200 BC and AD 600.
A city east of Nazca culture, controlled much of Peru's mountains and coastal areas.
A powerful city developed on the southern shores of Lake Titicaca.
The skilled warrior and leader who declared himself Sapa Inca in 1438.
The emperor of the Incan Empire.
The capital city of the Incan empire.
A collection of colored strings that were knotted in different ways to represent various numbers.
The leader of each Inca village.
The sun god and the most important god of the Incas.
Cliff residences in present day Colorado, with 200+ rooms, built by the ancestral Puebloans.
Free standing villages with multi-floor houses, connected to on another by door ways and ladders.
The largest of all the Pueblos, built by Ancestral Puebloans and consisted of 800 rooms that could house 300 people.
A large underground chamber.
Heaped and shaped pieces of earth.
The greatest Mississippian center in present-day Illinois, housed 20,000 people by AD 1100.
A person of high rank distributes lavish gifts to large numbers of guests.
Unique political alliance of 5 Iroquois groups: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.