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Incas/Mississippians

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agriculture   farming  
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Andes Mountains   a mountain range in the western portion of South America  
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Atahualpa   the king of the Incas at the time the Spaniards arrived in America  
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Cahokia   a political and religious center for Mississippian culture  
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cranial deformation   a form of body alteration in which the skull of a human being is deformed intentionally. It is done by distorting the normal growth of a child's skull by applying force.  
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Cusco   the capital city of the Incan Empire  
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earthworks   man-made mounds of earth  
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Francisco Pizarro   Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas  
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llama   a domesticated grazing animal of South America  
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Machu Picchu   “the forgotten city” of the Incas that was used as a retreat for the nobles  
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palisade   a fence made of wooden poles placed upright in the ground  
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suspension bridge   a bridge made with cables and ropes  
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three sisters   crops of corn, beans, and squash, commonly grown together  
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vertical economy   a method of raising animals that grazed in higher elevations and growing crops at lower elevations  
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wattle and daub   the process of making plastered cane matting for the walls of buildings  
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