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| 99585057 | Teotihuacan | a powerful city-state in central Mexico; population was 150,000 at its peak in 600 | 0 | |
| 99585058 | Chinampas | raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields | 1 | |
| 99585059 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in development of a calendar, mathematics, astronomy | 2 | |
| 99585060 | Toltecs | powerful post-classic empire in central Mexico. influenced much of Mesoamerica. Aztecs claimed ties to this earlier civilization. | 3 | |
| 99585061 | Aztecs | Also known as Mexica, created powerful empire in central Mexico. they forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. | 4 | |
| 99585062 | Tenochtitlan | capital of the aztec empire; located on island in lake Texcoco. Mexico city was constructed on its ruins | 5 | |
| 99585063 | tribute system | a system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. an important component of the Aztec and Inca economies | 6 | |
| 99585064 | Anasazi | important culture of what is now the Southwest U.S. Centered on Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and Mesa Verde in Colorado, the culture built multistory residences and worshipped in subterranean buildings called kivas | 7 | |
| 99585065 | chiefdom | form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader who held power over a collection of villages and towns. Less powerful than kingdoms and empires, these were based on gift giving and commercial links. | 8 | |
| 99585066 | khipu | system of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean people to transmit information | 9 | |
| 99585067 | Ayllu | Andean lineage group or kin-based community | 10 | |
| 99585068 | mit'a | andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religious organizations | 11 | |
| 99585069 | Moche | civilization of north coast of peru; an important andean civilization that built extensive irrigation networks as well as impressive urban centers dominated by brick temples | 12 | |
| 99585070 | Tiwanaku | name of the capital city and empire centered on the region near lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia | 13 | |
| 99585071 | Wari | andean civilization culturally linked to Tiwanaku; perhaps beginning as a colony | 14 | |
| 99585072 | Inca | largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital at Cuzco | 15 |
