Chapter 11 Vocabulary

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Section 1: Longhouse:

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Houses that were made of wooden poles and covered with sheets of bark and were surrounded by wooden fences for protection. The Iroquois lived there.

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Clan:

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Groups of related families.

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Tepee:

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Circular tents that were made up of wooden poles with buffalo skin stretched over them.

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Adobe:

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Sun-dried brick.

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Pueblo:

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Multistory structures that housed many people.(made up of stone and adobe.)

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Bering Strait:

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A land bridge that people of Asia used to cross in order to get to North America.

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Inuit:

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People that moved into North America from Asia.

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Gulf of Mexico:

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An ocean basin surrounded by North America.

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Hopewell:

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People who were in the Ohio River Valley.

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Cahokia:

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A site near the modern city of East St. Louis, Illinois.

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Iroquois:

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People that lived to the Northeast of the Mississippian culture.

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Plains Indians:

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People who lived along the river valley's in the eastern Great Plains.

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Anasazi:

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People who established a farming society in the southwest.

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Mesa Verde:

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A site in southern Colorado where a large community formed.

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Section 2: Hieroglyph

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A sophisticated writing system.

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Tribute:

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Goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors.

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Mesoamerica:

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Areas of Mexico and Central America where ancient empires flourished.

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Olmec:

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An old society found in Mesoamerica.

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Teotihuacan:

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The first major city in Mesoamerica.

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Yucatan Peninsula:

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Another site, far to the east of Teotihuacan, where the Mayan civilization was risen.

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Maya:

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One of the most sophisticated civilizations in the Americas. Located on the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Tikal:

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Urban centers in present-day Guatemala where inhabitants may have lived.

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Toltec:

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The most significant peoples in central Mexico who rose after the collapse of Teotihuacan.

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Chichen Itza:

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A city that the Toltec controlled including the upper Yucatan Peninsula.

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Aztec:

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Peoples that established a capital at Tenochtitlan. ( valley of Mexico.)

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Tenochtitlan:

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A place near the Valley of Mexico where the Aztecs established a capital at.

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Lake Texcoco:

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A lake where the Aztecs were driven when they were under attack by another people.

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Section 3: Maize:

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Corn.

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Quipu:

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Where records were kept using a system of knotted strings.

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Caral:

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The oldest major city in the Americas.

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Chavin:

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People who lived in the coastal region of modern-day Peru and Ecuador.

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Nazca:

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A culture that appeared in Peru.

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Ecuador:

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A country in South America that boarders the coast.

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Moche:

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A place in South America where a major urban center arose. (The capital of a powerful state. )

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Inca:

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A small community of peoples located in the area of Cuzco.

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Cuzco:

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A city located at 11,000 ft. in the mountains of Southern Peru where the Inca's were.

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Pachacuti:

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An Incan ruler who helped the Inca's launch a campaign of conquest.

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Machu Picchu:

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An abandoned city at an elevation of 8,000 ft. that was built on a hilltop surrounded by mountain peaks.

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Urubamba River:

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A river that was located below Machu Picchu and its surrounding mountains.