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Mesoamerica Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vital | pertaining to life, necessary, essential |
| Adapt | able to be able to change or evolve to survive your environment |
| Glacier | a big sheet of ice in water |
| Mesoamerica | old america |
| SouthAmerica | the southern part of america |
| Olmec | the first major civilization |
| Maya | had the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas |
| Inca | a member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru |
| Aztec | a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521 |
| Caribou | a large North American reindeer |
| Teotihuacan | Teotihuacan was one of the most remarkable cities of the ancient world In its day, it was massive, densely populated, and well organized |
| Tenochtitlan | The ancient capital of the Aztec empire, founded circa 1320 |