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| 3239110188 | Teotihuacan | largest city in pre-Columbian America, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Mexico City. Built c. 300 bc, it reached its zenith c. ad 300-600, when it was the center of an influential culture that spread throughout Meso-America. It was sacked by the invading Toltecs c. 900. | 0 | |
| 3239110189 | Toltecs | member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs. | 1 | |
| 3239111980 | Mexica | The Mexica or Mexicas — were an indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec empire. The Mexica were a Nahua people who founded their two cities Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco on raised islets in Lake Texcoco around AD 1200. After the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the Tenochca Mexica, assumed a senior position over their two allied cities — Texcoco and Tlacopan. | 2 | |
| 3239113981 | Tula | ancient capital city of the Toltecs, usually identified with a site near the town of Tula in Hidalgo State, in central Mexico. | 3 | |
| 3239116306 | Tenochtitlan | ancient capital of the Aztec empire, founded c. 1320. In 1521, the Spanish conquistador Cortés destroyed it and established Mexico City on its site. | 4 | |
| 3239123519 | Aztec | member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. | 5 | |
| 3239123520 | Mexica Society | a highly complex and stratified society that developed among the Aztecs of central Mexico in the centuries prior to the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and which was built on the cultural foundations of the larger region of Mesoamerica. Politically, the society was organised into independent city-states, called altepetls, composed of smaller divisions (calpulli), which were again usually composed of one or more extended kinship groups. Socially, the society depended on a rather strict division between nobles and free commoners, both of which were themselves divided into elaborate hierarchies of social status, responsibilities, and power. Economically the society was dependent on agriculture, and also to a large extent on warfare. Other economically important factors were commerce, long distance and local, and a high degree of trade specialisation. | 6 | |
| 3239127078 | Nahuatl Language | known informally as Aztec, is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. | 7 | |
| 3239129194 | Tezcatlipoca | Tezcatlipoca was the principal god. He was at first the god of life, and was represented bearing darts and a polished metal shield. | 8 | |
| 3239131263 | Quetzalcoatl | plumed serpent god of the Toltec and Aztec civilizations. | 9 | |
| 3239131264 | Bloodletting | the letting of blood out of ones body | 10 | |
| 3239138339 | Huitzilopochtli | a Mesoamerican deity of war, sun, human sacrifice and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan. He was also the national god of the Mexicas, also known as Aztecs, of Tenochtitlan. Many in the pantheon of deities of the Aztecs were inclined to have a fondness for a particular aspect of warfare. However, Huitzilopochtli was known as the primary god of war in ancient Mexico. Since he was the patron god of the Mexica, he was credited with both the victories and defeats that the Mexica people had on the battlefield.[1] It is important to remember that the defeat of their patron deity meant the defeat of his people. This is one of the many reasons why they were concerned with providing exquisite tribute and food for him. Not only was it important for him to survive his battles, but the fate of the Mexica people would have rested in the victory of Huitzilopochtli. | 11 | |
| 3239140297 | Pueblo/Navajo | member of an American Indian people of New Mexico and Arizona. | 12 | |
| 3239143225 | Iroquois | member of a former confederacy of North American Indian peoples originally comprising the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples (known as the Five Nations), and later including also the Tuscarora (thus forming the Six Nations). | 13 | |
| 3239144776 | Inca Empire | member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest. | 14 | |
| 3239144777 | Chimu | member of an Amerindian people inhabiting the northern coast of Peru and having a highly developed urban culture that lasted until its destruction by the Incas. | 15 | |
| 3239167196 | Cuzco | city in the Andes in southern Peru; pop. 348,900 (est. 2007). It was the capital of the Inca empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533. | 16 | |
| 3239167197 | Quipu | ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways. | 17 | |
| 3239167198 | Artisan | worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand | 18 | |
| 3239170553 | Polynesian Region | group of Austronesian languages spoken in Polynesia, including Maori, Hawaiian, and Samoan. | 19 |
