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Across 1. sophisticated writing system based on pictures 5. lake Aztec were driven to in 1325 (2 Words) 6. Aztec Capital now Mexico City 8. corn 9. people who Toltec protected the Yucatan Peninsula from (2 Words) 11. river by the city of Machu Picchu (2 Words) 13. system of knotted strings used to keep records 20. first known civilization 23. cultivated beans, maze, and squash (2 Words) 24. have a burial mound over 98 feet tall 27. housed about a dozen families 28. first major city in Mesoamerica 32. Mexico and Central America 33. home of the Moche 36. established a extensive farming society 37. reached high point during 950-1150 AD 38. group of related family

Down 2. where Maya flourished (2 Words) 3. lived in present day Guatemala 4. a long migration brought them to th valley of Mexico where they their capital Tenochititlan 7. known for their etched groves in the rocky soil of southern Peru 10. oldest city in the Americas 12. land bridge between Asia and North America (2 Words) 14. multistoried structure that housed many people 15. started off as a small comunity in the area of Cuzco 16. Mexico's gulf (3 Words) 17. a city located 11,000 feet in the mountains of southern Peru 18. people who came from Asia 19. built on a lofty hill top about 8,000 feet high (2 Words) 21. Anasazi national park (2 Words) 22. northeast of the Mississipean culture 25. Easter Woodland people who lived in the Ohio River Valley 26. lead the Incas on campaign of conquest 29. lived in the coastal regions of modern-day Peru and Ecuador 30. streched buffalo skin over wooden poles 31. good or money paid by conquared people to their conquarors 34. sun-dried brick 35. one of the most sophisticated civilizations in the americas