Chapter 6- Civilizations of The Americas Vocab 12

Question 0

In the Aztec empire, artificial islands used to cultivate crops and made of mud piled stop reed mats that were anchored to the lakebed with willow trees

Answer 0

Chinampas

Question 1

Cord with many knotted strings that was used by the Inca to record census data, the size of a harvest, and historical events.

Answer 1

Quipu

Question 2

Any of various systems of showing time divisions by days, weeks, months, or years.

Answer 2

Calendar

Question 3

Form of writing which uses a symbolic figure or character

Answer 3

Glyph

Question 4

The basic underlying framework of features of a system, organization, or civilization (roads, bridges, canals, satellites, etc.)

Answer 4

Infrastructure

Question 5

Farming using built up steps of land on step hillside using walls to hold the land in place

Answer 5

Terrace farming

Question 6

Region of North America including Mexico and Central America, in which civilizations with common cultural features developed before Europeans entered the continent.

Answer 6

Mesoamerica