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04/02/2015

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                                                                     Aztec[image]
Definition
a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
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Maya

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Definition
the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions.
Term
             Olmec[image]
Definition
a people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Term
Yucatan Peninsula[image]
Definition
 in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel.
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Monte Alban [image]

Definition
is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca
Term
Definition
a system of calendarsused in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.
Term
                 Maya Calendar[image]
Definition
a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.
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               Tenochtitlan[image]
Definition
 an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of people who lived there.
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                                          Aztec Goverment[image]
Definition
structure from units of society that existed long before the Aztec empire was founded.  
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Nahuatle [image]

Definition
a member of a group of peoples native to southern Mexico and Central America, including the Aztecs.
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                                             Lake Texcoco[image]
Definition
was a natural lake formation within the Valley of Mexico. The Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in the lake. The Spaniards built Mexico City over Tenochtitlan.
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