Inca & Aztec

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A republic in western South America (4)
  2. 5. A person who operates a farm (plural) (7)
  3. 8. Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911 (11)
  4. 11. A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast (5)
  5. 12. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes (5)
  6. 14. A titled peer of the realm (5)
  7. 15. The domain ruled by an emperor or empress (6)
  8. 16. A ruler of the ___ (4)

Down

  1. 1. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (4)
  2. 2. A fortified defensive structure (8)
  3. 3. A member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca (7)
  4. 6. A republic in northwestern South America (7)
  5. 7. United States baseball player (6)
  6. 9. Wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking (5)
  7. 10. An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue (5)
  8. 13. A town in the Andes in southern Peru (5)