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Pre-Colonial
Cultures/Civilizations
Question | Answer |
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One of the groups that adopted Olmec culture; controlled a sophisticated civilization in modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras | Maya |
Culture that spawned from the fusion of nomadic and sedentary cultures; created the empire that the Spanish encountered | Mexica-Nahua |
Muslims from North Africa who invaded Spain in 711 | Moors |
First and "mother" culture of Mesoamerica; emerged c. 1200 BC | Olmec |
One of the groups Cortez defeated on his way to Tenochtitlan | Potonchan |
Mesoamerican civilization that traded with the Maya and spread Olmec culture throughout central Mexico | Teotihuacan |
Longtime rivals of the Mexica and allies of the Spanish | Tlaxcalans |
A tribal group which claimed the cultural mantle of Teotihuacan | Toltec |