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Americas
Term | Definition |
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Potlatch | A ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans |
Anasazi | People to the North in Mesoamerica who influenced Hohokam and lived in the Four Corners |
Pueblo | A village of large apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone, built by the Anasazi and later peoples of the American Southwest |
Mississippian | Relating to a Mound Builder culture that flourished in NA between AD 800 and 1500 |
Iroquois | A group of Native American people who spoke related languages, liven in the eastern Great Lakes region of NA and formed an alliance in the late 1500s |
Totem | An animal or other natural object that serves as a symbol of the unity of clans or other groups of people |
Tikal | A spectacular city of Mayans |
Glyph | A symbolic picture, especially one used as part of a writing system of carving messages into stone |
Codex | A book with pages that can be turned |
Popol Vuh | A book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation |
Obsidian | A hard glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons |
Quetzalcoatl | "The Feathered Serpent," a god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples |
Montezuma | A new ruler of the Aztecs who was crowned emperor in 1502, he weakened the empire and he is the emperor who Cortés met |
Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord used by the Inca to record numerical information |
Mita | In the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days a year |
Allyu | A traditional form of community in Mesoamerica |