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| 220246472 | Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America | |
| 220246473 | Olmec | a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization contered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC | |
| 220246474 | Maya calendar | Most elaborate calendar of the ancient Americas. It combined two kinds of years into one system: a solar year of 365 days governed the agricultural cycle, and a ritual year of 260 days governed daily affairs by organizing time into twenty "months" of thirteen days apiece. | |
| 220246475 | Maya math | Incorporated concept of zero and place value but had limited notational signs | |
| 220246476 | Chavian cult | andes mountains, s. america | |
| 220246477 | Aboriginal | having existed from the beginning, having existed from the beginning | |
| 220246478 | Pyramid of the sun | Pyramid found in ancient Teotihuacan, it was 200-feet tall and had a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. | |
| 220246479 | Temple of the giant jaguar | a stepped pyramid that was 47 meters high (154 feet) and was located in Tikal | |
| 220246480 | Lapita | Society from New Guinea to Tonga (1500-500 B.C.E.) with agricultural villages, networks of trade and communication, and hierarchical chiefdoms. | |
| 220246481 | 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. | |
| 220246482 | 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 | |
| 220246483 | Austronesian | people who as early 2000 B.C.E. began to explore and settle islands of pacific ocean basin, the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia | |
| 220246484 | Mochica | Mochica is a society in the Andean valleys, near the Moche River, that left behind a remarkable artistic legacy. They made ceramics that represented gods and everyday life. | |
| 220246485 | Tikal | the most important Maya political center between the 4th-9th centuries. It was a city that had temples, pyramids, palaces, and public buildings. | |
| 220246486 | Chichen itza | A large small city Mayan kingdom. They accoustomed captives into their own society. Organzied an empire that brought political stability to northen Yucatan, who it lost its empire to. | |
| 220246487 | Teotihuacan | The first major civilization of central Mexico, this was a city-state whose ruins lie just outside of Mexico City. | |
| 220246488 | Popol vuh | a book containing a versioin of the Mayan story of creation. |
