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27 Cards in this Set
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Yucatan Penninsula
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Mayas
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cleared forests to build raised fields called platforms
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Mayas
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Not a unifided empire, broken up into city-states
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Mayas
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Peasants hauled stones to build temples
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Mayas
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pyramids, rituals and gods
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Mayas
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Pok-a-tok
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Mayas
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hierogliphics
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Mayas
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astronomers developed a 365 day calender
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Mayas
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learned to use zero
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Mayas
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Capital Tikal
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Mayas
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cities abandoned but culture still thrives
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Mayas
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Plateau of Mexico around 1200 BC
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Aztecs
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Defeated and captured neughboring city-states
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Aztecs
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Tenochtitlan capital
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Aztecs
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Quetzalcoatl
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Aztecs
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Chinampas- floating fields for farming
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Aztecs
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first to educate boys and girls
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Aztecs
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Herdando Cortes defeated
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Aztecs
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Moctezuma
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Aztecs
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Andes Mountains
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Incas
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children of the sun
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Incas
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emperor was in full control
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Incas
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cuzco capital
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Incas
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Machu Picchu
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Incas
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Chasqui messanger
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Incas
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quipi counting rope
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Incas
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Pizzaro landed in peru and caused a civil war
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Incas
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