chapter 3 vocab
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- kiva
- a round room used by the pueblo people for religious ceremonies
- hieroglyphics
- the signs and symbols that made up the mayan writing system
- Cuzco
- the capital city of the incan empire
- Tenochtitlan
- capital city of the Aztecs
- Andes
- a mountain chain of western south america
- Mayas
- a people who established a great civilization in middle america
- Great Plains
- a mostly flat and grassy region of western america
- Incas
- people of a powerful south american empire during the 1400s and 1500s
- Mound Builders
- native american groups that built earthen mounds
- terraces
- steplike ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming
- quipu
- a group of knotted strings that recorded information
- maize
- corn
- slash and burn agriculture
- a farming techniquein which trees are cut down then burnt to clear and fertilize the land
- pueblo
- a native american stone or adobe dwellig, part of a cluster of dwellings built close together
- Anasazi
- one of the ancient native american peoples of the southwest
- census
- an official count of people in a certain place at a certain time
- Aztecs
- a people who lived in the vally of mexico