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- Q1The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., these people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction.Olmec
Maya
Spanish
Aztec
30s - Q2They settled in the Yucatan Peninsula, not far from the Olmecs. A very cultural and intellectual people who used astronomy to create and very accurate calendar.
Aztec
Olmec
MayaSpanish
30s - Q3Another name for shifting cultivation, so named because fields are cleared by slashing the vegetation and burning the debris.slash and burn agriculture30s
- Q4symbol that stands for a word, idea, or soundhieroglyphic30s
- Q5a building designed for observing the stars and planetsobservatory30s
- Q6a small area if planted landplot30s
- Q7consisting of many different and connected partscomplex30s
- Q8Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in central Mexico (1325-1521 C.E.). They forced defeated peoples to provide goods and labor as a tax.
Olmec
Maya
Spanish
Aztecs30s - Q9bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher landbasin30s
- Q10A floating garden on which the Aztec grew cropschinampa30s
- Q11A protective wall that controls or holds back waterdike30s
- Q12A structure that carries water over long distancesaqueduct30s
- Q13fixed, unchangingrigid30s
- Q14to have a source of origindescend30s
- Q15A Spanish conqueror of the Americasconquistador30s