Vocabulary 5

Question 1

Meso-American

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

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

1.
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.
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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 Cortes

Answer 5

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnaŋ korˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of

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

The Yucatán Peninsula separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea, encompassing 3 Mexican states, plus portions of Belize and Guatemala. On the Caribbean, Mexico’s Riviera Maya resort strip is bookended by 2 popular destinations: Cancún, with its high-rise hotels and nightlife, and, down the coast, quieter Tulum, a rare seaside example of the Mayan ruins found throughout the peninsula’s interior.

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. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, reported the ruins to La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal.

Question 9

Chichenitza

Answer 9

the ruins of an ancient Mayan city, in central Yucatán state, Mexic

Question 10

Lake texcoco

Answer 10

Lake 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

Tenochtitlan

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Chavin

Answer 12

vin. or Cha·vín (chä-vēn′) n. An early pre-Incan civilization that flourished in northern and central Peru from about 900 to 200 bc, known for its carved stone sculptures and boldly designed ceramics. [After Chavín de Huántar.]

Question 13

Inca

Answer 13

a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches.

Question 14

Andes

Answer 14

a mountain range in W South America, extending about 4500 miles (7250 km) from N Colombia and Venezuela S to Cape Horn. Highest peak, Aconcagua, 22,834 feet (6960 meters

Question 15

Quechua

Answer 15

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 16

Sacrifice

Answer 16

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 17

Francisco

Answer 17

Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa and claimed the lands for Spain

Question 18

Stone heads

Answer 18

The Olmec colossal heads are at least seventeen monumental stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. The heads date from at least before 900 BC and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.

Question 19

Maize

Answer 19

technical or chiefly British term for corn1.

Question 20

Longcount

Answer 20

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar is a non-repeating, vigesimal (base-20) and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya. For this reason, it is often known as the Maya (or Mayan) Long Count calendar.

Question 21

Machu pichu

Answer 21

Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley. Built in the 15th century and later abandoned, it’s renowned for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, intriguing buildings that play on astronomical alignmen

Question 22

Copan

Answer 22

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 A

Question 23

Cusco

Answer 23

a city in S Peru: ancient Inca ruins.

Question 24

Popol vuh

Answer 24

The Popol Vuh is the story of creation according to the Quiche Maya of the region known today as Guatemala. Translated as The Council Book', The Book of the People' or, literally, The Book of the Mat’, the work has been referred to as “The Mayan Bible” although this comparison is imprecise.Mar 21, 201

Question 25

Caral

Answer 25

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Question 26

Calendar

Answer 26

a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal informatio

Question 27

Observatory

Answer 27

noun
a room or building housing an astronomical telescope or other scientific equipment for the study of natural phenomena.
a position or building that gives an extensive view.

Question 28

Pyramids

Answer 28

a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
2.
an object, shape, or arrangement in the form of a pyramid.
"a pyramid of logs"
verbNORTH AMERICAN
3rd person present: pyramids
1.
heap or stack in the shape of a pyramid.