Ancient Civilizations Textbook Chapter 16

MASON R. (United States of America)
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  1. maize
    corn
  2. observatory
    a building equipped to view astronomical phenomena
  3. causeway
    a road that is raised above water, marshland, or sand
  4. conquistador
    a 16th-century Spanish conqueror of Peru and Mexico
  5. Quechua
    the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
  6. masonry
    structure built of stone or brick
  7. Maya
    a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
  8. Aztec
    a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
  9. Inca
    the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
  10. Machu Picchu
    Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911
  11. Montezuma II
    the last Aztec emperor in Mexico who was overthrown and killed by Hernando Cortes (1466-1520)
  12. Hernando Cortes
    Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
  13. Quetzalcoatl
    an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent
  14. Cuzco
    a town in the Andes in southern Peru
Created on Thu Nov 07 14:00:30 EST 2013 (updated Wed May 21 15:43:07 EDT 2014)

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