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Mesoamerican
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Chocolate | Montezuma loved cold cocoa, cocoa beans, and the Aztecs loves vilana |
| Inca Bridges | Incas used bridges to get across the water, the bridges were made out of only a lot and a lot of wheat |
| Tenochtitlan | A place where the Aztecs lived |
| Machu Picchu | A vacation for Aztecs and their emperors |
| Human Sacrifices | a ceremony would begin when a there was a human sacrifice, the priests would fist rip out the persons heart then go to other parts |
| Quipu | A device to record information, it had usually six strings with different colors |
| Beauty for Incas | The Incas would put beads on babies foreheads so they would be cross eyed and the Incas would flatten babies heads when they were born. |
| Llamas | Llamas are animals that people ride on to carry food and supplies, the llamas can carry up to 200 pounds |
| Sapa Inca | The Incas believed that the Sapa Inca was the son of the g-d of sun |
| Montezuma II | Montezuma II is the emperor of the Aztecs, no one came look at him in the eyes |
| Inca Messengers | Would get notes from the emperor, then run a mile to the next person to tell the next to tell the last to tell the other emperor |
| Cactus | Aztecs thought that they heard a g-d tell them to find a bird on a cactus then build they city |
| City-State | A City-State is an independent political city that is (basically) a state and it may have it's own government |