africa 8.2

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 was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico

Question 6

montezuma

Answer 6

Montezuma was emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.

Question 7

yucatan peninsula

Answer 7

southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico

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.