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15 Cards in this Set
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potlach
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a ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some northwest coast tribes of native americans
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anasazi
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an early native americans people who lived in the american southwest
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pueblo
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villages of large apart ment like buildings made of clay and stone built by the anasazi and later peoples of the american southwest
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mississippian
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relating to a mound builder culture that floursihed in north america between A.D. and 1500
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iroquois
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a group of native american people who spoke related languages lived in the eastern alliance in the late 1500
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totem
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animals or other natural objects that as symbols of the unity of clans or other groups of people.
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tikal
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a ruler
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glyph
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a symbolic picture especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone.
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codex
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a bookk with pages that can be turned like the one you are reading now.
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popol vuh
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a book containing a version of the mayan story of creation.
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obsidian
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a hard glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons.
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quetzalcoatl
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the feathered serpent a god of the toltees and other mesoamerican peoples.
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triple alliance
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an association of the city states of tenochtitlan texcoco and tlacopan which led to the formation of the Aztec empire.
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montezuma 2
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a ruler
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pachacuti
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a ruler
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