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| 247096859 | Teotihuacan | A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100 B.C.E - 750 C.E) Its population was about 150,000 at its peak in 600. | 0 | |
| 247096860 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lakeshores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 1 | |
| 247096861 | 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 mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. | 2 | |
| 247096862 | Toltecs | Powerful postclassic empires in central Mexico (900-1175). It influenced much of Mesoamerica. Aztecs claimed ties to the earlier civilization. | 3 | |
| 247096863 | Altepetl | An ehtnic state in ancient Mesoamerica, the common political building block of that region. | 4 | |
| 247096864 | Calpolli | A group of up to a hundred families that served as a social building block of an altepetl in ancient Mesoamerica. | 5 | |
| 247096865 | 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. | 6 | |
| 247096866 | Aztecs | Also known as Mexica, the Aztecs created a powerful empire in central mexico, (1325-1521). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax. | 7 | |
| 247096867 | Tribute System | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the forrm of goods/labor. This forced the transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized teh development of large cities. An important component of the Aztecs and Inca economies. | 8 | |
| 247096868 | Anasazi | Important culture of what is now the southwest U.S (700-1300). Centered on Chaco Canyon in New Mexico and Mesa Verde in Colorado, the Anasazi culture built multistory residences and worshiped in subterranean buildings called kivas. | 9 | |
| 247096869 | 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, chiefdoms were based on gift giving and commercial links. | 10 | |
| 247096870 | Kivas | Subterranean buildings for worship built and used by the Anasazi | 11 | |
| 247096871 | Ayllu | Andean lineage group or kin-based community. | 12 | |
| 247096872 | Mit'a | Andean lavor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the ruler and religous organizations. | 13 | |
| 247096873 | Moche | Civilizations of North coast of Peru, (200-700). An important Andean Civilization that built extensive irrigation networks as well as impressive urban centers dominated by brick temples. | 14 | |
| 247096874 | Wari | Andean civilization culturally linked to Tiwanaku, perhaps beginning as a colony of Tiwanaku. | 15 | |
| 247096875 | Tiwanaku | Name of capital city and empire centered on the region near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia (375-1000). | 16 | |
| 247096876 | Inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco. | 17 | |
| 247096877 | Khipus | System of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information. | 18 |
