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WH - Unit 7
Empires of America: Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beringia | ancient land bridge over which the earliest Americans are believed to have migrated from Asia into the Americas. |
| Ice Age | period, lasting from roughly 1.9 million years ago to about 10,000 BC, during which sheets of moving ice, called glaciers, spread southward from the Arctic Circle. |
| Maize | a cultivated cereal grain that bears its kernels on large ears; usually called corn in the United States. |
| Mesoamerica | an area extending from central Mexico to Honduras, where several of the ancient complex societies of the Americas developed. |
| Olmec | the earliest-known Mesoamerican civilization, which flourished around 1200 BC and influenced later societies throughout the region. |
| Zapotec | an early Mesoamerican civilization that was centered in the Oaxaca Valley of what is now Mexico. |
| Monte Alban | the first real urban center, built by the Zapotec in about 500 B.C. in the Oaxaca Valley, Mesoamerica. |
| Chavin | the first major South American civilization, which flourished in the highlands of what is now Peru from about 900 to 200 BC. |
| Nazca | a civilization that flourished on what is now the southern coast of Peru from about 200 BC to AD 600. |
| Moche | a civilization that flourished on what is now the northern coast of Peru from about AD 100 to 700. |
| Potlatch | a ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans. |
| Anasazi | an early Native American people who lived in the American Southwest. |
| Pueblo | a village of large apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone, built by the Anasazi and later peoples of the American Southwest. |
| Mississippian | relating to a Mound Builder culture that flourished in North America between AD 800 and 1500. |
| Iroquois | a group of Native American peoples who spoke related languages, lived in the eastern Great Lakes region of North America, and formed an alliance in the late 1500s. |
| Totem | an animal or other natural object that serves as a symbol of the unity of clans or other groups of people. |
| Tikal | a major center in present-day northern Guatemala that was once home to the Maya civilization. |
| Pacal | Mayan ruler of Palenque who was buried in the Temple of Inscriptions. |
| Glyph | a symbolic picture, especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone. |
| Codex | a book with pages that can be turned. |
| Popul Vuh | a book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation. |
| Obsidian | a hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons. |
| Quetzalcoatl | “the Feathered Serpent”—a god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples. |
| Triple Alliance | an association of the city-states of Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire. |
| Montezuma I | Aztec leader who ruled the Aztec Empire from 1440 to 1469 and is known for building Tenochtitlán into a great city. |
| Montezuma II | Aztec ruler from 1502 to 1520; he was the emperor of the Aztecs when Cortés and his army conquered the empire. He was taken prisoner |
| Pachacuti | Inca leader from 1438 to 1471; with the help of his son, Topa Inca, he extended the Incan empire through the use of military force and political alliances. |
| Ayllu | in Incan society, a small community or family group whose members worked together for the common good. |
| Mita | in the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year. |
| Quipu | an arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. |
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