Early Civilizations of the Americas Vocabulary
It's about the empires that lived in the old times of the Americas,and some of the tools and things they used and made.
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- hieroglyphics
- Mayan writing system
- slash-and-burn agriculture
- trees are cut down and burned for farming
- kiva
- round religious room
- Great Plains
- flat and grassy region of Western North America
- quipu
- strings with information
- pueblo
- stone or adobe dwelling
- Incas
- empire of Andes
- Cuzco
- capital of Incas
- maize
- corn
- Mayas
- empire in Middle America
- Anasazi
- Native Americans of Southwest
- Mound Builders
- Native Americans who built earthen mounds
- Tenochtitlan
- capital of Aztecs
- census
- official count of people
- terrace
- steplike ledge for farming
- Aztecs
- empire of Valley of Mexico
- Andes
- South America mountain chain