MesoAmerica

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. An unbound manuscript of some ancient classic (5)
  2. 5. A peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche (7)
  3. 7. A member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between (5)
  4. 8. A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status (5)
  5. 10. Mexico and Central America (11)
  6. 12. Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many (5)
  7. 15. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (7)

Down

  1. 1. Evergreen tree with large leathery leaves and large pink to orange flowers (9)
  2. 2. An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings (5)
  3. 4. A group's customs, art and way of life (7)
  4. 6. Of or relating to ___ (8)
  5. 9. Tropical American tree producing ___ beans (5)
  6. 10. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (4)
  7. 11. The event of something being raised upward (9)
  8. 13. Calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords (5)
  9. 14. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (6)