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Details Title: Ch11: The Americas Review Description: Vocabulary to study for chapter test Total Flash Cards: 40 Created: 12/06/2004 06:15:15	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term longhouse Definition Iroquois house about 150 to 200 feet long built of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark and housing about a dozen families Term clan Definition a group of related families Term tepee Definition a circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles Term adobe Definition sundried brick Term pueblo Definition a multistoried structure of the Anasazi that could house up to 250 people Term Mesoamerica Definition the name used for areas of Mexico and Central America that were civlized before the arrival of the Sapanish Term hieroglyph Definition a picture or symbol used in a hieroglyphic system of writing Term tribute Definition goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors Term maize Definition corn Term quipu Definition a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records Term Inuit Definition native Americans who settled alson the coasts of the tundra region of the Artic and northwest. Build igloos Term Hopewell Definition Native Americans appeared in the Eastern Woodlands. Mound Builders.Built elaborate earth mounds used as tombs or for religious ceremonies Term Iroquois Definition Eastern Woodland Native Americans. Clans lived together in longhouses.Grew the "3 sisters" and hunted. Created Iroquois Grand Council and Iroguis League. Term Plains Indians Definition Native Americans lived west of the Mississippi River basin in the Great Plains. Hunters and lived in tepees. Term Anasazi Definition Native Americans lived in the southwest (Utah,New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado). Built pueblos made of adobe and farmed. Term Olmec Definition First known civilization in Mesoamerica. Farmers. Carved large stone heads to represent their gods. Term Maya Definition Civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula flourished between A.D. 300 and 900. Cities were built around a central temple. Term Toltec Definition Warlike people who lived northwest of present-day Mexico City. Term Aztec Definition Civilization established in the location of present-day Mexico city in the 12th century. Term Hernan Cortes Definition Spanish commander who, in 1520, conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico. Term Montezuma Definition Aztec ruler (1466-1520) conquered by Hernan Cortes Term Moche Definition People who established an empire in the area of present day Eucador near the Moche River. They were farmers and warriors, had no written language. Term Inca Definition South American civilization located in the area of modern-day Peru, Ecuador and Chile. A.D.700s-1500s. Spoke Quechua,but had no written language. Used the quipu to record information. Term Pachacuti Definition Incan ruler until 1471. Founder of the Incan empire during the 1440's. Term Francisco Pizarro Definition Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca during the 1530s Term Amazon River Definition Major South American River Term Mississippi Definition Major North American River Term Bering Strait Definition sea passage between Alaska and Russia Term Gulf of Mexico Definition body of water between the coasts of the southern U.S. and Mesoamerica Term Cahokia Definition located near East St. Louis, Illinois; site of burial mound over 98 feet high with a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt Term Mesa Verde Definition Abandoned Anasazi settlement in southern Colorado. Buildings were build in the recesses of cliff walls Term Teotihuacan Definition first major city in Mesoamerica "Place of the Gods" 250B.C. to A.D. 800 Term Yucatan Peninsula Definition peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico. Location of the Maya civilization Term Tikal Definition Mayan city located in present-day Guatemala. Had over 100,000 residents. Term Chichen Itza Definition Toltec capital city Term Lake Texcoco Definition located in present day Mexico City; capital city of the Aztec was built here on an island (Tenochtitlan) Term Eucador Definition South American Country. Site of the Moche settlements Term Cuzco Definition Incan city located in the mountains ofj southern Peru Term Machu Picchu Definition Incan city; best example of their architectual genius.Has a long elegant stairway leading to the "hitching post of the sun." Term Urubamba River Definition South American River; close to site of Machu Picchu