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Chapter 15
Section 2 n 3
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History
9th Grade
11/26/2012

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Tikal
Definition
an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Codex
Definition
a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.
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glyph
Definition
a pictograph or hieroglyph.
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Popol Vuh
Definition
sacred book of the Quiché.
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obsidian
Definition
a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.
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Triple Alliance
Definition
the alliance (1882–1915) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
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Quetzalcoatl
Definition
a god of the Aztecs and Toltecs, represented as a feathered serpent
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Montezuma
II
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c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
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Pachacuti
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was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cusco, which he transformed into the empire Tawantinsuyu.
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ayllu
Definition
were the basic political unit of pre-Inca and Inca life.
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mita
Definition
a form of public service during the Inca Empire
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quipu
Definition
were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region.
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