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18 Cards in this Set
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ceremonial feast to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest tribes of Native Americans
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potlach
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people who lived in the Four Corners Region and built impressive cliff dwellings and influenced the Hohokam
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Anasazi
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village of large apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone, built by Anasazi people
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pueblos
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the last Mound Builder culture who created thriving villages based on farming and trade
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Mississippian
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group of tribes speaking related languages living in the eastern Great Lakes Region
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Iroquois
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a natural objxtwith which an individual, clan, or group identifies itself and serves as a symbol of the unity of a group or clan
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totems
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city built by Mayans that was a major center in northern Guatemala
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Tikal
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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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glyph
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a book with pages tat can be turned
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codex
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a book that contained a version of the Mayan story of creation
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Popol Vuh
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a hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons
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obsidian
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"the feathered serpent" a god of the Tolecs and other Mesoamerican peoples
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Quetzalcoatl
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an association of the city-states of Tenochtilan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztex empire
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Triple Alliance
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emperor of the Aztec empire who called for more tribute and sacrifice which casued rebellion and weakened the empire
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Monezuma II
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Incan emperor who stretched his empire 2,500 miles along South America, which was called "Land of the Four Quarters"
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Pachucuti
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in Incan society, a small community or family group whose members worked together for the common good
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ayllu
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in Incan empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of day each year
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mita
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an arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information
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quipu
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