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| 5475698662 | 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. | 0 | |
| 5475698663 | Mayan | a large family of American Indian languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya and Quiché. | 1 | |
| 5475698664 | Tenochtitlan | was the capital city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300s to the early 1500s. | 2 | |
| 5475698665 | Chinampas | is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds. | 3 | |
| 5475698666 | Toltecs | a member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs. | 4 | |
| 5475698667 | Aztecs | a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. | 5 | |
| 5475698668 | Tribute System | was the network of trade and foreign relations between China and its tributaries that helped to shape much of East Asian affairs. | 6 | |
| 5475698669 | Mississippian People | 1 : of or relating to Mississippi, its people, or the Mississippi River. 2 : of, relating to, or being the period of the Paleozoic era in North America following the Devonian and preceding the Pennsylvanian or the corresponding system of rocks — see geologic time table. | 7 | |
| 5475698670 | Pachacuti | was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cusco which he transformed into the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu). | 8 | |
| 5475698671 | Inca | a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches. | 9 | |
| 5475698672 | LLamas | a domesticated pack animal of the camel family found in the Andes, valued for its soft woolly fleece. | 10 | |
| 5475698673 | Quipu | an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways. | 11 | |
| 5475698674 | Incan Roads | was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was about 39,900 kilometres (24,800 mi) long. | 12 | |
| 5475698675 | Matrilineal System | of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line. | 13 | |
| 5475698676 | Mita System | was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire. Historians use the hispanicized term mita to differentiate the system as it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system. | 14 | |
| 5475698677 | Human Sacrifice | is the act of killing one or more human beings, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual. | 15 | |
| 5475698678 | Royal Ancestor Veneration | the custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living. | 16 | |
| 5475698679 | Pochteca | were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. They were a small, but important class as they not only facilitated commerce, but also communicated vital information across the empire and beyond its borders. The trade or commerce was referred to as pochtecayotl. | 17 |
