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Chp 3 Civilizations of the Americas Vocab

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Mound Builders:
Native American groups who built curious and long lasting mounds.
Maize:
corn.
Cuzco:
the Incas' capital city.
Great Plains:
west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains is a mostly flat and grassy region.
Hieroglyphics:
a system of writing using signs and symbols.
Quipu:
a group of knotted strings.
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.
Kivas:
round rooms that were used for special religious ceremonies.
Tenochtitlán:
the capital of the Aztecs that they built.
Census:
an official count of the people.
Anasazi:
ancient Native American peoples of the Southwest. Their name can be translated as "the ancient ones."
Aztecs:
people who lived in the Valley of Mexico.
Mayas:
people that established a great civilization and built many cities in this region of Middle America.
Pueblos:
stone and adobe dwellings, built next to one another.
Andes:
a mountain chain that snakes along the western coast of the continent.
Incas:
people of a powerful empire that ruled part of South America in the 1400s and 1500s.

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