48952916 | Toltec | came from northwestern mexico and settled in northern Mexico city population of 60 thousand people | 0 | |
48952917 | Mexica | often refer to themselves as the Aztecs because they dominated the alliance that built the Aztec empire in the 15 century | 1 | |
48952918 | Huitzilopochtli | God followed by the Mexica's and military success made them think Huitzilopochtli favored Mexica more | 2 | |
48952919 | Questzalcoatl | the feathered serpent, representation for supporting arts, craft, and agriculture | 3 | |
48952920 | Pueblo | used water to irrigate crops like maize and many more and bulit permanent stone building found by archaeologists today | 4 | |
48952921 | Iroqois | women were incharge of villages and related families lived togeter and men took responsibility for affairs beyond the village like hunting, fishing, and war | 5 | |
48952922 | Inca | a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | 6 | |
48952923 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. (p. 305) | 7 | |
48952924 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. (p. 301) | 8 | |
48952925 | Quipu | knotted strings used to record population, animals, textiles, weapons, and rulers, and notable events in religion. | 9 | |
48952926 | Cahokia Mound | big mound at Cahokia near East St. Louis, Illinois, built by Iroquois people for ceremonies or ritual performance | 10 | |
48952927 | Marae | ceremonal precint and temple structure | 11 | |
48952928 | Nan Madol | site of a massive stone palace built by the Sandeleur dynasty on Pohnpei (Oceania) | 12 | |
48952929 | Ali'i nui | hereditary chiefly or noble rank (class, caste) in traditional Hawaiian society. The aliʻi class consisted of the high and lesser chiefs of the various realms in the islands | 13 |
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