Early Civilizations of the Americas
for ms. olson's class
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- terraces
- steplike ledges cut into the mountains
- census
- An official count of the people
- Incas
- People of a powerful empire that ruled part of South America in the 1400s and 1500s
- hieroglyphics
- A system of writing using signs and symbols
- quipu
- A group of knotted strings use for records
- slash-and-burn agriculture
- They first cleared the land by cutting down trees. They then burned the tree stumps, saving the ash to use as fertilizer
- Tenochtitlan
- The Aztecs' capital city
- Aztecs
- People who lived in the valley of Mexico
- Mayas
- People who established a great civilization and built many cities in this region of Middle America
- Cuzco
- Incas' capital city
- maize
- Corn
- Andes
- A mountain chain that snakes along the western coast of the continent