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Ch11: The Americas Review
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longhouse
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Iroquois house about 150 to 200 feet long built of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark and housing about a dozen families
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clan
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a group of related families
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tepee
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a circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles
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adobe
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sundried brick
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pueblo
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a multistoried structure of the Anasazi that could house up to 250 people
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Mesoamerica
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the name used for areas of Mexico and Central America that were civlized before the arrival of the Sapanish
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hieroglyph
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a picture or symbol used in a hieroglyphic system of writing
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tribute
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goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors
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maize
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corn
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quipu
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a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records
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Inuit
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native Americans who settled alson the coasts of the tundra region of the Artic and northwest. Build igloos
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Hopewell
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Native Americans appeared in the Eastern Woodlands. Mound Builders.Built elaborate earth mounds used as tombs or for religious ceremonies
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Iroquois
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Eastern Woodland Native Americans. Clans lived together in longhouses.Grew the "3 sisters" and hunted. Created Iroquois Grand Council and Iroguis League.
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Plains Indians
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Native Americans lived west of the Mississippi River basin in the Great Plains. Hunters and lived in tepees.
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Anasazi
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Native Americans lived in the southwest (Utah,New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado). Built pueblos made of adobe and farmed.
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Olmec
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First known civilization in Mesoamerica. Farmers. Carved large stone heads to represent their gods.
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Maya
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Civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula flourished between A.D. 300 and 900. Cities were built around a central temple.
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Toltec
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Warlike people who lived northwest of present-day Mexico City.
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Aztec
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Civilization established in the location of present-day Mexico city in the 12th century.
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Hernan Cortes
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Spanish commander who, in 1520, conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico.
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Montezuma
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Aztec ruler (1466-1520) conquered by Hernan Cortes
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Moche
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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.
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Inca
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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.
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Pachacuti
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Incan ruler until 1471. Founder of the Incan empire during the 1440's.
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Francisco Pizarro
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Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca during the 1530s
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Amazon River
Definition
Major South American River
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Mississippi
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Major North American River
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Bering Strait
Definition
sea passage between Alaska and Russia
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Gulf of Mexico
Definition
body of water between the coasts of the southern U.S. and Mesoamerica
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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
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Mesa Verde
Definition
Abandoned Anasazi settlement in southern Colorado. Buildings were build in the recesses of cliff walls
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Teotihuacan
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first major city in Mesoamerica "Place of the Gods" 250B.C. to A.D. 800
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Yucatan Peninsula
Definition
peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico. Location of the Maya civilization
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Tikal
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Mayan city located in present-day Guatemala. Had over 100,000 residents.
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Chichen Itza
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Toltec capital city
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Lake Texcoco
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located in present day Mexico City; capital city of the Aztec was built here on an island (Tenochtitlan)
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Eucador
Definition
South American Country. Site of the Moche settlements
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Cuzco
Definition
Incan city located in the mountains ofj southern Peru
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Machu Picchu
Definition
Incan city; best example of their architectual genius.Has a long elegant stairway leading to the "hitching post of the sun."
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Urubamba River
Definition
South American River; close to site of Machu Picchu
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