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mesoameric Vocab

TermDefinition
VITAL of or relating to life:
Adapt to make suitable to requirements or conditions; adjust or modify fittingly:
GLACLER Avoid the pitfalls of irregardless, thusly, and anyways.
MESOAMERICA nthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
SOUTHAMERICA As readers, we recognize prefixes, like dis- and un-, as expressing negation. However, there are some clear exceptions to these rules.
OLMEC of or designating a Mesoamerican civilization, c1000–400 b.c., along the southern Gulf coast of Mexico, characterized by extensive agriculture, a dating system, long-distance trade networks, pyramids and ceremonial centers, and very fine jade work.
MAYA the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
INCA a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
AZTEC a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.
CARIBOU any of several large, North American deer of the genus Rangifer, related to the reindeer of the Old World.
TEOTIHUACAN the ruins of an ancient Mesoamerican city in central Mexico, near Mexico City, that flourished a.d. c200–c750 and is the site of the pyramids of the Sun and Moon and of many temples, palaces, and dwellings.
TENOCHTITLAN The same race that erected the pyramids on the teotihuacan might have raised these buildings.
HONDURAS a republic in NE Central America. 43,277 sq. mi. (112,087 sq. km). Capital: Tegucigalpa. 2. Gulf of, an arm of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
YUCATAN PENINSULA Honduras may not be very good, but Spain, who started the tournament as heavy favorites, has yet to prove it is any better.
MONOPOLY
CONTINENT
TRADE ROUTE
TRADING EMPIRE
ECONOMY ESPN
SOCIAL ESPN
POLITICAL EAPN
ENVIRONMENT ESPN
PACHACUTI
EMPIRE
GOVERNMENT
PETEN
ASTRONOMER
ARCHEOLOGIST
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