Chapter1 - Time Line & Map of Messo America

Question 1

Messo-America

Answer 1

Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Question 2

Glyph

Answer 2

1.
a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.
“flanges painted with esoteric glyphs”
2.
ARCHITECTURE
an ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.

Question 3

Olmec

Answer 3

a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( circa 1200–400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.
2.
a people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Question 4

Aztec

Answer 4

a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
2.
the extinct language of the Aztecs, a Uto-Aztecan language from which modern Nahuatl is descended.

Question 5

Hernan

Answer 5

Hernán is a Spanish masculine given name, originating from Germanic Hernan in the Visigoth culture in Spain. It is the Latinized version of the compound name Fard-nanth, which seems to mean “gentle traveler” or “spiritual pilgrim

Question 6

Montezuma

Answer 6

Montezuma was emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest. Montezuma tried to appease the Spanish but failed and was captured by them and deposed. During the ensuing Aztec revolt he was either killed by his own people or murdered by the Spanish.

Question 7

Yucatán Peninsula

Answer 7

a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea. Synonyms: Yucatan Example of: peninsula. a large mass of land projecting into a body of water.

Question 8

Tikal

Answer 8

Tikal (/tiˈkäl/) (Tik’al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala.

Question 9

Chichenitza

Answer 9

Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the Northern Maya Lowlands from the Late Classic.

Question 10

Lake Texcoco

Answer 10

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 11

Chinampa

Answer 11

is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.

Question 12

Quipu

Answer 12

an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.

Question 13

Chavin

Answer 13

The Chavín culture is an extinct, prehistoric civilization, named for Chavín de Huantar, the principal archaeological site at which its artifacts have been found. The culture developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 900 BC to 200 BC. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast.

Question 14

Inca

Answer 14

a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest.
2.
the supreme ruler of the Inca.

Question 15

Andes

Answer 15

mountain system of S. America extending along W coast from Panama to Tierra del Fuego — see aconcagua.

Question 16

Quechua

Answer 16

a member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador.
2.
the language or group of languages of the Quechua.

Question 17

Sacrifice

Answer 17

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 18

Fransico

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Pizarro

Answer 19

The Pizarro surname comes from the Spanish word “pizarra,” which means “slate;” as such, it was likely originally name used by someone who lived near a slate quarry, or an occupational name for someone who worked in one.

Question 20

Stone heads

Answer 20

Moai, are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500 CE.[1][2] Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island’s perimeter.

Question 21

Maize

Answer 21

technical or chiefly British term for corn1.

Question 22

Longcount

Answer 22

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 23

Machu Pichu

Answer 23

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 24

Copan

Answer 24

Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD.

Question 25

Cusco

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city in Peru, former capital of the Inca Empire, from Quechua (Inca), literally “navel,” in a figurative meaning “center” (of the world, as the navel is the center of the body).

Question 26

Popol Vuh

Answer 26

is a corpus of mytho-historical narratives of the Post Classic K’iche’ kingdom in Guatemala’s western highlands. The title translates as “Book of the Community”, “Book of Counsel”, or more literally as “Book of the People