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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adena culture | Ohio valley 500BC large exchange networks earthworks (ceremonial) (burial) 200bc-400ad hopewell culture |
| American bottom | mississipian tradition bohokian sites |
| Anasazi | great dependence on farming (formal for ancestral pueblo people) grew maize beans and cotton Hohokam, mogollon, ancestral pueblo H-traded with mexico M-higghland culture tradition AP-developed from indenous forager roots |
| Atahuallpa | Inkan ruler at the time of spanish conquest |
| Ayllu | basic political and social units of pre-Inca and Inca life. |
| Aztec | militaristic really ceremonious depended on proffessional merchants oppointed officials ensured fair practices calpulli 'big house' when cortes came rulerr believed in legend(1 reed) and was trickd |
| Cahokia | Great mississuipian center lies (American bottom) mounds and plazas |
| Calakmul | (Guetemala) Major Mayan political and religious center from preclassic times |
| caracol | defeated tikal paid the price for military adventures |
| pochteca | aztec merchants |
| cenote | 'well' |
| chaco canyon | Built pueblos astronomy (predicted solctices) hovenweep, colorado evidence of astro |
| chaco phenomenon | san juan basin 1050 great expansion in chaco |
| chan chan | (Peru) Chimu state nine large enclosures walls commoners served as soldiers constructed roads |
| chavin de huantar | an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed by the Chavín, a pre-Inca culture |
| chichen itza | Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya civilization. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. |
| chimu | he Chimú were the residents of Chimor, with its capital at the city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo city. The culture arose about 900 AD |
| chinampas | method of ancient Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangle-shaped areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake |
| chiripa | city near lake titicaca |
| cliff palace | Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The Ancient Pueblo structure is located in Mesa Verde National Park |