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Incas/Mississippians
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | farming |
| Andes Mountains | a mountain range in the western portion of South America |
| Atahualpa | the king of the Incas at the time the Spaniards arrived in America |
| Cahokia | a political and religious center for Mississippian culture |
| 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. |
| Cusco | the capital city of the Incan Empire |
| earthworks | man-made mounds of earth |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas |
| llama | a domesticated grazing animal of South America |
| Machu Picchu | “the forgotten city” of the Incas that was used as a retreat for the nobles |
| palisade | a fence made of wooden poles placed upright in the ground |
| suspension bridge | a bridge made with cables and ropes |
| three sisters | crops of corn, beans, and squash, commonly grown together |
| vertical economy | a method of raising animals that grazed in higher elevations and growing crops at lower elevations |
| wattle and daub | the process of making plastered cane matting for the walls of buildings |
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