Meso America Flashcards
Meso 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
hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph
olmec
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 civilizatio
Aztec
a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
Hernan Cortes
n Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
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.
Yucatan Peninsula
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In this telling, the first Spanish explorers asked what the area was called and the response they received, “Yucatan,” was a Yucatec Maya word meaning “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” Others claim that the source of the name is the Nahuatl (Aztec) word Yocatlān, “place of richness.”
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.
Chichenituza
article courtesy of Hacienda Chichen Resort within the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. The Maya name: “Chichen Itza” means “ at the edge of the Itza’s well.” This derives from chi’, meaning “mouth” or “edge”, and ch’e’en, meaning “well.”
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
Tenochtitan
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300s to the early 1500s. Mexico City was built upon some of the ruins of Tenochtitlan. In this lesson, you’ll learn about this historic city, and then you can test your knowledge with a quiz.Jun 14, 2015
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.
2.
the supreme ruler of the Inca.
Andes
The Andes or Andean Mountains (Spanish: Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world. They are a continual range of highlands along the western edge of South America
Quechua
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
