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Ancient America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adobe | a building material made from mixing sand, clay, and water and letting it dry in the sun |
| Andes | a mountain range in South America running 5,000 miles along the Pacific Coast |
| aqueduct | a man-made channel used to transport water over a long distance |
| barter | exchange goods without using money |
| cacoa | sees that the Maya used to make chocolate |
| codex | a type of book written by the Maya that was created in one long sheet of paper that was then folded like an accordion |
| glyph | a character used in writing |
| isthmus | a narrow piece of land linking two large areas of land (example: Central America) |
| Machu Picchu | Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru, discovered in 1911 |
| maize | a vegetable like corn; it was the main staple food of the Aztecs |
| Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America |
| Montezuma | the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes |
| sacrifice | the act of killing in order to appease a deity |
| smallpox | an infectious disease that often causes death |
| terrace farming | type of farming where steps are built onto the slopes of hills and mountains |
| tribute | a tax paid by the city-states to the Aztec Emperor |
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Mrs.Fletcher
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