8.1 Flashcards
Meso-America
region of Central America and southern North America that was occupied by several civilizations, especially the Maya, in pre-Columbian times
Glyph
a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph
Olmec
1.a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico (c. 1200–400 bc), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.
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1.a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico (c. 1200–400 bc), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.
Aztec
1.a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
Herman Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule o
Yucatan peninsula
a peninsula in southeastern Mexico that lies between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
Tikal
an ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala. It flourished ad 300–800
Chichenitza
The Maya name: “Chichen Itza” means “ at the edge of the Itza’s well.” This derives from chi’, meaning “mouth” or “edge”, and ch’e’en, meaning “well.”
NochtitanLake texcoco
Lake Texcoco (Spanish: Lago de Texcoco) was a natural lake within the Anáhuac or Valley of Mexico. Lake Texcoco is most well known as where the Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan, which was located on an island within the lake.
Tenochititan
Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of people who lived there.
Inca
a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches.
Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world. They are a continual range of highlands along the western edge of South America.
Quecha
a member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador
Sacrifice
an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure
Fransisco
In Spanish the meaning of the name Francisco is: Also a Spanish variant of the Latin Francis, meaning Frenchman or free one.
Pizzaro
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) Francisco Pizarro.
Stone head
A stonehead is a rare breed that is resulted from being a stoner with many pothead friends. A stonehead is usually aware of the name of what they smoke but not of what it is. - Julie can be such a stonehead sometimes. She’s so unware of how good her stash is.
Maize
a system of dating in the Maya calendar according to the time in numbers of baktuns, katuns, tuns, uinals, and days elapsed since an arbitrary point prior to 3000 b.c. — compare short count.
Machu pichu
Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Picchu, “Old mountain”) is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,400 meters (7,875 ft) above sea level[1]. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 km (50 mi) northwest of Cusco.
Cusco
city in Peru, former capital of the Inca Empire
Popol vuh
: Poopol Wuuj is a corpus of mytho-historical narratives of the Post Classic K’iche’ kingdom in Guatemala’s western highlands
Caral
a machine in which cloth or paper is pressed by rollers to glaze or smooth it.
Observatory
a room or building housing an astronomical telescope or other scientific equipment for the study of natural phenomena.
•a position or building that gives an extensive view.
Pyramids
a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
