The First Americans

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons (plural) (6)
  2. 4. A skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft (7)
  3. 5. The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their (plural) (5)
  4. 7. A person who searches for something (plural) (7)
  5. 8. Ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln (7)
  6. 11. Mexico and Central America (11)
  7. 12. To move from one country or region to another and settle there (7)
  8. 14. A slowly moving mass of ice (7)
  9. 15. The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock (7)
  10. 16. A mainly residential district of Manhattan (7)

Down

  1. 2. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes (plural) (6)
  2. 3. A native or inhabitant of ___ (plural) (7)
  3. 6. A group's customs, art and way of life (7)
  4. 9. Someone engaged in or experienced in warfare (plural) (8)
  5. 10. The commercial exchange of goods and services (5)
  6. 13. The act of someone who fishes as a diversion (7)