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| 7571172044 | Teotihuacan | The large urban center located near present-day Mexico City established by the Oaxaca Zapotecans. It was estimated to have a population as night as 200,000 making it second to Rome. |  | 0 |
| 7571172045 | Barrios | Apartment compounds where the working class peoples of Teotihuacan lived. |  | 1 |
| 7571173939 | Zapotec | The peoples who established the large city at Teotihuacan. | 2 | |
| 7571173940 | Ball court game | Forms of worship and sport where players hit a rubber ball using their hips and elbows through a ring 20 feet in the air. | 3 | |
| 7571176453 | Ridged field system | An agricultural system in which raised fields were built above low lying, seasonally flooded lands bordering rivers. | 4 | |
| 7571176454 | Milpa | An agricultural system where farmers cut down patches of forest, burned the wood, and planted maize in the resulting ash. This was especially useful in areas with heavy rainfall and scorching sun. |  | 5 |
| 7571178015 | Steles | Stone slab monuments which the Maya built |  | 6 |
| 7571178016 | Codices | Books made of bark and deerskin where mayan hieroglyphics were written. We have 4 existing today. | 7 | |
| 7571178017 | Vigesimal | A system of counting based on 20. |  | 8 |
| 7571186135 | Tikal | The Mayan city with had a population density of 300 per sq. mile surrounding it because of the success of intensive agriculture. | 9 | |
| 7571188396 | Huari/Tihuanaco | The two large cities developed by the Moche in Bolivia and Peru | 10 | |
| 7571188397 | Verticality | The culture in which the social and political objective of families was to find economic niches at different altitudes. |  | 11 |
| 7571191218 | Altiplano | Spanish for "high plain," a region in Peru and Bolivia encircled by the Andes | 12 | |
| 7571191219 | Ayllus | Kinship units based on descent from a common mythical ancestor. They shared the same dialect, dress, and customs. | 13 | |
| 7571194657 | Reciprocity | The concept which cooperative relationships were based on. It even structured diplomatic relations between states. | 14 | |
| 7571194658 | Kerma | An independant Nubian Kingdom which appeared between 1800 and 1600 BCE. It was destroyed by Egyptian forces. | 15 | |
| 7571194659 | Meroe | The capital city of Kush which had sanification facilities, public baths, and royal pyramids. | 16 | |
| 7571197652 | Coptic | A Nubian type of Christianity based on a monophysite sect. | 17 | |
| 7571197653 | Kush | The Nubian city which emerged in 900 BCE. It laid the foundations for the golden age of trade, culture, and Metallurgy. | 18 | |
| 7571197654 | Aksum | An urban African state which emerged in the rocky but fertile Ethiopian Highlands beginning in 400 BCE. It was already a center of agriculture, bronze, and ironworking and between 400 B.C.E. and 100 C.E. Aksumites built temples and palaces of masonry, dams, reservoirs, irrigation, and terraces. They also developed an alphabet. They were influenced by Christianity. | 19 | |
| 7571197655 | Sudanic | The area that was not present day Sudan but rather the southern grasslands between the Sahara's southern fringe and the tropical Congo region. | 20 | |
| 7571200387 | Nok | The peoples of Soutern Sudan (now Nigeria) who were mostly farmers and herders who were working with iron in 5000 BCE and creating an enduring artistic tradition. | 21 | |
| 7571200388 | Bantu | people who were drawing in many differing languages based on their traditions of farming and metal working. They moved east and south from their homelands along the Niger River, occupying much of southern Africa. | 22 | |
| 7571200389 | Trans-Saharan | across the sahara | 23 | |
| 7571203520 | Griots | A respected class of oral historians and musicians who memorized and recited history emphasizing the deeds of leaders. | 24 | |
| 7571203521 | Shintoism | the indigenous religion of Japan. It is a polytheistic belief system based on the kami, or ancient gods and spirits. | 25 | |
| 7571205515 | Kami | Ancient Gods and spirits in the Japanese religion. | 26 |
