vocabulary words Meso America

Question 1

Meso-America

Answer 1

Anthropology, Archaeology. the area extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua in which diverse pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.

Question 2

glyph

Answer 2

a pictograph or hieroglyph.

Question 3

Olmec

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Aztec

Answer 4

a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.

Question 5

Hernan Cortes

Answer 5

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of … Wikipedia