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.