chapter 3 terms
about america.
Terms
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- kiva
- a round room used by the pueblo people for religious ceremonies
- quipu
- a group of knotted string used by the Incas to record information
- Tenochitilan
- capital city of the Aztecs
- Cuzco
- the capital city of the Incan Empire, located in present-day Peru
- maize
- corn
- terraces
- steplike ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming
- Incas
- people of a powerful South American empire during the 1400s and 1500s
- Great Plains
- a mostly flat and grassy region of western North America
- pueblo
- a Native American stone or adobe dwelling, part of a cluster of dwelling, built close together
- cencus
- an official count of people in a certain place at a certain time
- hieroglyphics
- the signs and symbols that made up the Mayan writing system
- Andes
- a mountain chain of western South America
- Aztecs
- a people who lived in the Valley of Mexico
- slash-and-burn agriculture
- a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land
- Anasazi
- one of the ancient Native American peoples of the Southwest
- Mayas
- a people who established a great civilization in Middle America
- Mound Builders
- Native American groups who built earthen mounds