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Meso American Vocab Flashcards

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What is celt?

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a prehistoric stone or metal implement with a beveled cutting edge

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What is cinnabar

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is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury

Used color paints and as one of red coloring agents used in tattoo dyes

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What is La Venta

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Olmec Ceremonial Center

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What is a Nahual

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A spiritual animal guide/part of you

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What’s a caiman

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A type of crocodile / Olmec “Dragon”

Had aspects of a Harpy Eagle, a toad, a jaguar, and/or a snake

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What is Cranial Deformation?

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The shaping of the skull / was a form of beauty

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What are colossal heads?

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Giant heads made out of stone

Represented rulers or ball players

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What is the Olmec Heartland?

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San Lorezo, La Venta, and Chalcatzingo

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Who is Mathew Stirling?

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A man who excavated Omlec sites

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What was the World Mountain?

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Complex C “Mound C-1” / The Great Pyramid in La Venta

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What is “pars pro toto”?

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Parts for the whole / Parts of all

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What is a Harpy Eagle?

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A very big bird that had had significance to Olmec Culture

Very big tufts of feathers on its head

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What is Olmeca?

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People of rubber

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What was Offering #4, La Venta?

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17 stone figures with six celts

Appears to be a type of ceremony

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What are Selta?

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A upright stone slab/pillar often covered in relief sculptures

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What are were-jaguars?

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Shamans/rulers that tranform into or represent these alter-egos

Used as shaman practice

A deity

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What is a quetzal?

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A feathered serpent

18
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What is a shaman?

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People that are connected to the spiritual realm / had spiritual power

Aided the unwell

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What is a sarcophagus?

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A stone coffin // a tomb that had the appearance of a dragon

20
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What is the bufo marinus?

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A frog/ a toad

Used as a hallucinogenic

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What is Chalcatzingo?

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a Mesoamerican archaeological site in the Valley of Morelos

The Olmec Frontier

Evidence of human sacrifices

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What is a pectoral?

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A type of chest ornament

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What is Huahpu?

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One lord

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What is Xbalanque?

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Jaguar people

25
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What is the Popol Vuh

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The Genesis for the Omlecs

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What is the Principal Bird Deity?

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of the most significant gods of the early Maya pantheon

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What are the maya emblem glyphs?

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Glyphs that represents tribes or titles

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What is Initial Series Introductory Glyph (ISIG)?

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A system of place notation to recording a long count date

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What are the three sisters?

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Maize, beans, and squash

30
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Who was Bernardino de Saghagun

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Created the Florentine Codex manuscript

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Who is Fedrick Catherwood?

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An English artist that painted detailed drawings of Mayan ruins

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