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12 Cards in this Set
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Maize
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technical or chiefly British term for corn.
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Quipu |
an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
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Caral |
one of the most ancient cities of the Americas, and a well-studied site of the Caral or Norte Chico civilization. |
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Chavin |
The culture developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 900 BC to 200 BC. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast. |
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Nazca |
The Nazca culture was the archaeological culture that flourished from 100 BC to 800 AD beside the dry southern coast of Peru in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca drainage and the Ica Valley |
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Ecuador |
Ecuador is a country straddling the equator on South America’s west coast.
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Moche |
a pre-Inca culture that flourished on the coast of Peru in the 1st to 7th centuries AD.
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Inca |
a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest.
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Cuzco |
former capital of the Inca Empire, with extensive Inca remains
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Pachacuti |
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui was the ninth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco which he transformed into the empire Tawantinsuyu or the Inca Empire
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Machu Picchu |
Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley.
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Urubamba River
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The Urubamba River or Willkamayu is a river in Peru
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