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Americas Study Guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Olmec | Known for sculpting monumental heads from stone |
| maize | most important crop to the survival of early Americans |
| Mesoamerica | The area that stretches south from central Mexico to northern Honduras |
| Zapotec | Civilization located in present day Oaxaca, that built temples and developed an early form of a hieroglyphic writing system. |
| Nazca Lines | Drawings of animals, plants, humans, and geometric shapes etched on the plains of southeastern Peru |
| Mexico | In what present-day land do archaeologists believe the first Americans built an advanced civilization? |
| Moche | Archaeologists have learned a lot about the ________ civilization through its pottery that depicted scenes of everyday life. |
| Zapotec, Aztec, Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Teotihuacan | Civilizations of Mesoamerica |
| Nazca and Moche | Civilizations that created ancient irrigation ditches in the Andes |
| codex | Bark-paper book written on by the Maya |
| planets, sun, and moon | They Maya based their calendar on careful observation of what? |
| Allowed an exchange of traditions and ideas | Why was trade important to ancient American civilizations? |
| "mother culture" | a civilization that influences neighbors and later civilizations; the Olmec are an example |
| Chavin | Civilization of Peru that established patterns that became the basis for later civilizations |
| Triple Alliance | In 1428, the Aztecs joined with two other city-states to form this |
| Mita | tribute of labor that the Inca demanded from its subjects |
| Aztecs | Used conquered people for human sacrifice |
| Pachacuti | Under this leader, the Inca expanded rapidly |
| noble class in Aztec society | military leaders, government officials, and priests |
| military force and diplomacy | Methods used by the Ina to add territory to their empire |
| socialism | The Incan system of government was similar to this type of government |
| Teotihaucan | First major civilization of central Mexico |
| Montezuma II's reduction of tribute payment | Did not help to unify and protect the Aztec civilization. Resentment continued to grow. |
| skilled engineers | One way the Romans and Inca were similar |
| Tikal | Important Maya city |
| glyphs | Used in the Maya writing system |
| decline of the Maya | Happened several hundred years before the Spanish arrived in the Americas |
| Quetzalcoatl | Depicted as a feathered serpent |
| Popol Vuh | Maya story about creation of the world |
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