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| 269662161 | Maize | Tall annual grass bearing kernels on large eat: widely cultivated in America in many varieties | 0 | |
| 269662162 | Bloodletting Rituals | the ritualized self-cutting or piercing of one's body. Crucial to the maintenance of social and political structure | 1 | |
| 269662163 | Teotihuacan | A powerful city-state in central Mexico with a peak population of about 150,00 | 2 | |
| 269662164 | Chinampas | raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields | 3 | |
| 269662165 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Honduras. | 4 | |
| 269662166 | Toltecs | Powerful postclassic empire in central Mexico. | 5 | |
| 269662167 | Aztecs | created a powerful empire in central Mexico. They forced defeated people to provide goods and labor as a tax | 6 | |
| 269662168 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco | 7 | |
| 269662169 | Tribute System | A system in which defeated people were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor | 8 | |
| 269662170 | Huitzilopochtli | the god of war, a sun god, and the Patron of Tenochtitlan... "Hummingbird on the left" | 9 | |
| 269662171 | Anasazi | important culture of what is now the southwest United States. Centered on Chaco Canyon in new mexico, and Mesa Verde in Colorado. | 10 | |
| 269662172 | Chimu | A civilization flourishing on the northern coast of Peru from about 1200 to 1460 | 11 | |
| 269662173 | Coca | The dried leaves of the tropical coca plant are chewed as a stimulant by the people of western south america and also used to make the drug cocaine | 12 | |
| 269662174 | Tiwanku | capital city and empire centered on the region near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia | 13 | |
| 269662175 | Wari | Andean civilization culturally linked to Tiwanku, perhaps beginning as a colony of Tiwanku | 14 | |
| 269662176 | Inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco | 15 | |
| 269662177 | Khipu | system of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information | 16 | |
| 269662178 | Mit'a | Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the rule and religious organizations | 17 | |
| 269662179 | Moche | civilization of the north coast of Peru | 18 |
