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Across 1. a raised road built across water or low ground 8. a person through whom a god or spirit is believed to speak 10. marriage in shich a man or a woman has more than one spouse 15. a ceremony that celebrates the end of childhood and acceptance into the adult community 16. a type of surgery that involves penetrating the skull 17. a gift of money or goods presented to a man or woman upon marriage 19. a neighborhood that is a political unit within a city 21. a wall or dam built to hold back water and prevent flooding 24. a written symbol that represents an idea or object 25. a social structure in the shape of a pyramid, with layers representing social classes of different rank or status 26. a characteristic of civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people 27. a stone slab or pillar with carvings or inscriptions 28. "Middle America," the region extending from modern-day Mexico through Central America 29. an Inca clan, the basic unit of Inca society 30. a regional variety of a language 31. the art of telling the future or finding hidden knowledge through religious means 32. a soldier who is paid to fight for another country or group

Down 2. an enclosed space or cage for keeping birds 3. a gift of an animal for slaughter as a way to honor gods 4. a Mayan ball game that had religious significance 5. a group of countries, city-states, or other entities who agree to work together, often to fight common enemies 6. a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops 7. a symbol or character in a hieroglyphic system of writing 9. shared by a community or group 11. a public square of other open area in a city where people can gather 12. a bridge whose roadway roadway is held up by cables that are anchored on each end of the bridge 13. passed on from parent to child; inherited 14. more than human but not fully a god 18. writing that uses pictures as symbols 20. a set of actions that is always performed the same way as part of a religious ceremony 22. a seat or chair on which a person is carried; a kind of carriage for high-ranking people 23. the time it takes Earth to travel once around the sun