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19 Cards in this Set
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Native American ceremony where families display their rank & prosperity by giving food, drink, & gifts to the community
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Potlatch
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An early Native American people who lived in the SW of North America
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Anasazi
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A village of large apartment-like buildings made of clay & stone, built by Anasazi & later
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Pueblo
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A group of Native American peoples who spoke related languages, lived in the eastern Great Lakes region of N.A. & formed an alliance in the late 1500s (Iroquois League)
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Iroquois
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relating to a mound building culture that flourished in NA between AD 800-1500
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Mississippian
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A major Mayan city of the Classic Period (250-900 AD) in Guantamala featuring giant pyramids, temples, palaces, & elaborate stone carvings
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Tikal
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A symbol in Mayan heiroglyphics; about 800 in alphabet
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Glyph
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A bark-paper book that kept records of Maya (inventory)
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Codex
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A book of the creation of the Mayan people (their Bible)
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Popol Vuh
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A green/black volcanic glass found in the Valley of Mexico & used to make razor sharp weapons
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Obsidian
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a carving of an animal or other natural object serving as a symbol of the unity of clans or other groups of people
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Totem
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"The Feathered Serpent" or Toltec god of war & other MesoAmerican peoples
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Quetzalcoatl
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An association of the three city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco & Tlacopan which led to formation of Aztec Empire
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Triple Alliance
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A new ruler in 1502 of the Aztec Empire, he demanded increased tribute & human sacrifices from provinces under Aztec control leading to unrest & rebellion of the people
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Montezuma II
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Incan Emperor (1438 AD) who ruled all Peru & stretched 2,500 miles along the west coast of S.A. ; "Land of the Four Quarters" w/ 80 provinces & 16 million people
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Pachacuti
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An extended family group that did communal projects like building irrigation canals, cutting terraces for agriculture in steep hillsides, etc.
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Ayllu
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Labor Tribute from the Mayan people to their Gov't/ruler for a # of days a year; social programs provided for elderly & indigent people by Gov't
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Mita
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a set of knotted strings used to record data for inventory by numbers, color coded by category ( red=warriors, yellow-gold, grey =silver, etc.)
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Quipu
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Incan religion including the embalming of the dead to preserve their bodies; also mummies were sacrificial humans taken high into to mountaintops of the Andes where they were freeze-dried
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Incan Mummies
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