meso america Flashcards
mesoamerica
the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
glyph
1. a pictograph or hieroglyph. 2. a sculptured figure or relief carving. 3. Architecture. an ornamental channel or groove.
olmec
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.
aztec
a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.
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montezuma
c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20.
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tikal
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
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