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| 243759497 | maya | the earliest heirs of the olmec | 0 | |
| 243759498 | slash and burn (or shifting) agriculture | people who lived in the rainforest used this practice | 1 | |
| 243759499 | stelae | series of altars and memorial pillars | 2 | |
| 243759500 | teotihuacan | centeral city | 3 | |
| 243759501 | toltecs | a group that migrated from northwestern mexico | 4 | |
| 243759502 | chinampas | floating gardens | 5 | |
| 243759503 | tribute system | conqered people had to contribute maize, beans, and other foods to support tenochtitlan | 6 | |
| 243759504 | moche | new group of people who built a society that thrived from 100 to 700 ce | 7 | |
| 243759505 | the inca | most powerful and well organized civilization that that formed a vast imperial state during the 15th century | 8 | |
| 243759506 | mit'a system | each person owned compulsory land services to the inca | 9 | |
| 243759507 | khipu | system of cords and beads for counting | 10 | |
| 243759508 | ayllus | inca bureacrats kept track of the labor service and tribute owned by local communities | 11 | |
| 243759509 | inca | chief ruler | 12 | |
| 243759510 | quechua | language and religious cult of cuzco | 13 | |
| 243759511 | anasazi | people who used river water to irrigate crops of maize, beans, squash, and sunflowers | 14 | |
| 243759512 | cahokia | the place where the largest and most important mound builders were located | 15 | |
| 243759513 | temujin | later to be known as genghis khan | 16 | |
| 243759514 | genghis khan | one of the most famous warriors in history | 17 | |
| 243759515 | kubilai khan | another of genghis's grandsons | 18 | |
| 243759516 | khanate of the great khan | this empire was first ruled from the old capital at karakorun in mongolia, but was moved to khanbalik, the mongol name for the old jin capital at beijing | 19 | |
| 243759517 | khanate of jagadai | this khanate in centeral asia was ruled by the descendants of genghis's son, jugadai | 20 | |
| 243759518 | khanate of the golden horde | the origins of the name is not clear but one story is that it is based on the sun catching the shields and weapons of the freat mongol armies as it marched toward its victims | 21 | |
| 243759519 | ii khan | established by hulegu, yet another grandson, this state controlled parts of armenia, all of azerbaijan, mesopotamia and iran | 22 | |
| 243759520 | pax mongolica | mongol peace, similiar to pax romana | 23 | |
| 243759521 | black death | worst pandemic in world history | 24 | |
| 243759522 | timur | broke the peace of ii khan | 25 | |
| 243759523 | osman | settled in anatolia and gathered a following of supporters | 26 | |
| 243759524 | ottoman turks | declared independence from the sejuck turks and established himself founder | 27 | |
| 243759525 | alexander nevsiki | agreed to mongol demands for tribute | 28 | |
| 243759526 | kubilai khan | genghis's talented grandson | 29 | |
| 243759527 | yuan dynasty | in 1279 kublai khan proclaimed himself chinese emperor and founded this dynasty | 30 | |
| 243759528 | ming dynasty | ruled china for the next three centuries | 31 |
