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mesoamericans
Term | Definition |
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Popul Vuh | like torah for Maya |
Chocolate | The Mayan ate it, used it for money, and their ruler ate 50 cups a day |
Inca Bridges | held up by long ropes, and one of them that the Incas built lasted for more than 500 years |
Chichen Itza | very famous temple that the Mayans built without any tools just their bare hands The Sun shined directly on it on a very important day in an important place |
Tenochtitlan | s a very beautiful city built on water by the Aztecs It is also called floating paradise |
Machu Picchu | very hard mountain to visit because it is 7,000 feet above sea level and it is in between two peaks of the Andes |
Sacred Round | a calendar that lasted 260 days and it was for important holidays |
Quipu | pieces of string that the Incas used to communicate because they had no written language |
Montezuma ll | leader for the Aztecs and he was so powerful that no one could look him in the eye or they would get killed |
City-States | an independent state with its own government |
Aztec Daily Life(Punishment) | a parent would take a handful of hot chili peppers and put them in the kids eyes and they started crying |
Llamas | used as packing animals and may other things they can hold up to 125 pounds |
Cactus | The Aztec s used this for many things like soup and gum |
Inca Mesengers | ran for a very long time and had a great memory they could carry on a message for about a week |
Spanish Explorers | very sneaky they tried to steel all of the Aztec's gold and made a deadly bargain with Atahualpa |
Sapa Inca | ruler of the Incas and gave orders to 12 million people |