africa

Question 1

meso america

Answer 1

Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.

Question 2

glyph

Answer 2

a pictograph or hieroglyph.

Question 3

olmec

Answer 3

of or designating a Mesoamerican civilization, c1000–400 b.c., along the southern Gulf coast of Mexico, characterized by extensive agriculture, a dating system, long-distance trade networks, pyramids and ceremonial centers, and very fine jade work.

Question 4

aztec

Answer 4

a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.

Question 5

hernan cortes

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

Question 6

montezuma

Answer 6

c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.

Question 7

yucatan peninsula

Answer 7

The Yucatán Peninsula separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea, encompassing 3 Mexican states, plus portions of Belize and Guatemala.

Question 8

tikal

Answer 8

an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Question 9

chichenitza

Answer 9

the ruins of an ancient Mayan city, in central Yucatán state, Mexico.

Question 10

lake texcoco

Answer 10

Lake Texcoco was a natural lake within the Anáhuac or Valley of Mexico.

Question 11

tenochtitlan

Answer 11

the capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.

Question 12

chavin

Answer 12

of, relating to, or characteristic of a Peruvian culture flourishing from the 1st to the 6th century a.d.

Question 13

inca

Answer 13

a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.

Question 14

andes

Answer 14

a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters).

Question 15

quechua

Answer 15

the language of the Inca civilization, presently spoken by about 7 million people in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.

Question 16

sacrifice

Answer 16

the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.

Question 17

francisco

Answer 17

male given name

Question 18

pizarro

Answer 18

Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] (Show IPA), c1470–1541, Spanish conqueror of Peru.