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13 Cards in this Set
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Hieroglyphics |
writing consisting of hieroglyphs (pictures) |
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Tribute |
payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence. |
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Mesoamerica |
Mesoamerica is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica. |
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Olmec |
a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( circa 1200–400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization. |
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Teotihuacan |
Teotihuacan, also written Teotihuacán, was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city located in a sub valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 30 miles northeast of modern-day Mexico City |
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Yucatan Penninsula |
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel |
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Maya |
A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around ad 300-900. |
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Tikal |
Tikal is the ruins of an ancient city found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, reported the ruins to a La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal |
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Toltec |
A member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs. The language of the Toltecs. |
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Chichen Itza |
Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. |
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Aztec |
a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. |
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Tenochtitlan |
the capital of the Aztec empire |
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Lake Texcoco |
Lake Texcoco was a natural lake formation within the Valley of Mexico. The Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in the lake
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