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| the area extending approximately from central mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished |
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The earliest American civilization, that of the Olmecs, emerged in the
tropical forests along the Gulf Coast of Mexico |
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In A.D. 1325, the Aztecs
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cial islands made of mud piled atop reed mats that were anchored to the
shallow lake-bed with willow trees |
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| payment from conquered peoples |
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| important powerful Aztec city |
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mixture of clay and plant fibers that
becomes hard as it dries in the sun |
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a collection of colored strings that were knotted in differ-
ent ways to represent various numbers |
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| leaders of each Inca village |
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kept rains from washing away the soil and made farming possible in
places where naturally flat land was scarce |
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| best example of stonework that was a city in the Andes |
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| designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented |
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