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| culture that flourished along the northern coast of Peru from around A.D. 100 to A.D. 700 |
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| city at the center of the Incan empire |
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| The basic unit of money in Peru |
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| an empire that ruled much of South America prior to European rule |
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| Domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco |
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| a stone tree carved with pictures to tell a message - created by the Mayans. |
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| mud brick dried by the sun, used to build small homes |
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| people who flourished along the meso-american coast of the Gulf of Mexico from 1200 B.C. to 400 B.C. |
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| Praise, honor or gifts given to show respect or to show thanks |
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| huge drawings made by the Nazca people by scraping the surface of a rocky plain and which can only be properly observed from the air |
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| city that dominated teh Valley of Mexico from 100 A.D. to 750 A.D. |
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| Floating gardens created by weaving reeds together and adding soil on top - often 30 X 330 ft. |
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| knotted strings representing numbers used to keep records in the Inca empire. |
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| Pueblo Indians pit house, which served as a ceremonial chamber or clubhouse of the men. It was located in a central place in the pueblo. |
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| The capitol of the ancient Aztec empire on the site of present-day Mexico City. |
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| A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519. A tribe of Native Americans who lived near New Mexico after the Mayans |
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| first influential culture in South America,which flourished from around 900 B.C. to 200 B.C. The first major South American civilization in what is now Peru |
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| The area between North America and South America, including Mexico and Central America. |
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| With a body length of over 3 feet and a weight of more than 100 pounds, this animal is definitely the world’s largest rodent! It has partially webbed feet that help the animal to swim. |
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| Central American Indians, who possessed one of the greatest civilizations before Aztec's domination |
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