9296957474 | Aliæi nui | Hawaiian class of high chiefs. | 0 | |
9296957475 | Aztec Empire | powerful Indian empire founded on Lake Texcoco (Mexico) | 1 | |
9296957476 | Cahokia | Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as 25,000 Native Americans | 2 | |
9296957477 | Chimu | regional Andean chiefdom that flourished from 800 to 1465 C.E.; fell to the Incas. | 3 | |
9296957478 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 4 | |
9296957479 | Chucuito | Kingdom dominating the highland regions of lake Titicaca | 5 | |
9296957480 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec sun god | 6 | |
9297179551 | Inca empire | Empire in Peru. conquered by Pizarro, who began an empire for the Spanish in 1535 | 7 | |
9297181834 | Iroquois | A group of tribes speaking related languages living in the eastern Great Lakes region. | 8 | |
9297181835 | Marae | Polynesian temples with several terraced floors | 9 | |
9297185391 | Métis | People of mixed Native American and French Canadian descent | 10 | |
9297185392 | Oceania | The region of the world centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean | 11 | |
9297187166 | Quetzalcoatl | an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent | 12 | |
9297188609 | Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 13 | |
9297188610 | Tenochtitlan | The captial city of the Aztecs. | 14 | |
9297190140 | Toltecs | powerful postclassic empire in central Mexico (900-1168 C.E.). It influenced much of Mesoamerica. | 15 | |
9297191559 | Yucatan | Peninsula in Central America, home of the Maya. | 16 |
AP World History Chapter 21 Flashcards
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