Chapter1 - Time Line & Map of Messo America Flashcards
Messo-America
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.
Glyph
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.
Olmec
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.
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a people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Aztec
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.
Hernan
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
Montezuma
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.
Yucatán Peninsula
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.
Tikal
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.
Chichenitza
Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the Northern Maya Lowlands from the Late Classic.
Lake Texcoco
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.
Chinampa
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.
Quipu
an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
Chavin
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.
Inca
a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest.
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the supreme ruler of the Inca.
Andes
mountain system of S. America extending along W coast from Panama to Tierra del Fuego — see aconcagua.
Quechua
a member of an American Indian people of Peru and parts of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador.
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the language or group of languages of the Quechua.
Sacrifice
an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure.
Fransico
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.
Pizarro
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.
Stone heads
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.
Maize
technical or chiefly British term for corn1.
Longcount
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.
Machu Pichu
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.
Copan
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.
Cusco
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).
Popol Vuh
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
