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| 210477247 | Austronesian peoples | the earliest inhabitants of New Guinea foraged food, like their neighbors to the south. Had remarkable seafaring skills. | 0 | |
| 210477248 | bloodletting rituals | a ritual in which a willing person would draw large amounts of blood to quench the gods thirst thus making them happy | 1 | |
| 210477249 | cacao | While the Maya did not have a uniform currency, this sometimes served as one since it was so valuble. | 2 | |
| 210477250 | Chavin cult | a new religion that appeared in the Andes mountains after 1000 BCE; enjoyed enormous popularity during the 900 to 800 BCE; spread in the area of modern Peru; vanished about 300 BCE; no information survives on the significance of the cults | 3 | |
| 210477251 | Chichen Itza | Originally a Mayan city; conquered by Toltecs circa 1000 and ruled by Toltec dynasties; architecture featured pyramid of Feathered Serpent (Quetzacoatl). Located in the northern Yucatan Peninsula. | 4 | |
| 210477252 | colossal heads | large depictions of the head of gods; built by the Olmec | 5 | |
| 210477253 | Lapita peoples | Austronesian migrants who settled in Pacific islands. They developed and maintained communication and trade systems with other islands and civilizations. | 6 | |
| 210477254 | maize | tall grass with corn and this was the main export from the ancient central american civilizations | 7 | |
| 210477255 | Maya | a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy | 8 | |
| 210477256 | Maya ball game | a game played with a rubber ball in which the goal was to score it through a hoop without using hands and sometimes there were sacrifices at the end | 9 | |
| 210477257 | Mesoamerica | This early civilization included Mexico and Central America and it was based on sedentary agriculture and the cultivation of corn and food production. | 10 | |
| 210477258 | Oceania | a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) | 11 | |
| 210477259 | Olmecs | (1400 B.C.E. to 500 B.C.E.) earliest known Mexican civilization,lived in rainforests along the Gulf of Mexico, developed calendar and constructed public buildings and temples, carried on trade with other groups. | 12 | |
| 210477260 | Popul Vuh | a Maya creation myth, taught that the gods had created humans out of maize and water, the ingredients that became human flesh and blood | 13 | |
| 210477261 | San Lorenzo | the first Olmec ceremonial center that arose about 1200 B.C.E. | 14 | |
| 210477262 | Temple of the Giant Jaguar | a stepped pyramid that was 47 meters high (154 feet) and was located in Tikal | 15 | |
| 210477263 | Teotihuacan | A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150,000 at its peak in 600. | 16 | |
| 210477264 | Tikal | the most important Maya political center between the 4th-9th centuries. It was a city that had temples, pyramids, palaces, and public buildings. | 17 | |
| 210477265 | Tres Zapotes | Olmec site of colossal heads | 18 | |
| 210477266 | Yucatan | a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea, homeland of the Maya | 19 |
