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Question 1

Meso-America

Answer 1

region of Central America and southern North America that was occupied by several civilizations, especially the Maya, in pre-Columbian times

Question 2

Glyph

Answer 2

a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph

Question 3

Olmec

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Aztec

Answer 4

1.a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.

Question 5

Herman Cortés

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Yucatan peninsula

Answer 6

a peninsula in southeastern Mexico that lies between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Question 7

Tikal

Answer 7

an ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala. It flourished ad 300–800

Question 8

Chichenitza

Answer 8

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.”

Question 9

NochtitanLake texcoco

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Tenochititan

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Inca

Answer 11

a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches.

Question 12

Andes

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Quecha

Answer 13

a member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador

Question 14

Sacrifice

Answer 14

an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure

Question 15

Fransisco

Answer 15

In Spanish the meaning of the name Francisco is: Also a Spanish variant of the Latin Francis, meaning Frenchman or free one.

Question 16

Pizzaro

Answer 16

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) Francisco Pizarro.

Question 17

Stone head

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Maize

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Machu pichu

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Cusco

Answer 20

city in Peru, former capital of the Inca Empire

Question 21

Popol vuh

Answer 21

: Poopol Wuuj is a corpus of mytho-historical narratives of the Post Classic K’iche’ kingdom in Guatemala’s western highlands

Question 22

Caral

Answer 22

a machine in which cloth or paper is pressed by rollers to glaze or smooth it.

Question 23

Observatory

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Pyramids

Answer 24

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.