| A | B |
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| Teotihuacan | the place (city) of the gods |
| Quetzacoatl | the feathered serpent god of the Aztec and Toltec cultures |
| mastaba | ancient Egyptian tomb made of brick that is rectangular with sloping sides and a flat roof |
| Re or Ra | the great sun god of Egypt |
| pharoah | the title of ancient Egyptian kings |
| Tlaloc | the Aztec god of rain |
| Nahuatl | the Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico and South America |
| hieroglyph | the Egyptian form of pictorial writing |
| meter | 39.37 inches/3.2808 feet |
| cubit | an ancient Egyptian way of measuring; based length on the king's forearm |
| quarry | an excavation pit from which building stone is obtained |
| electrum | amber-colored alloy of gold and silver used at the top of the Great Pyramid |
| truncated | shortened by cutting a part off |
| Cuidalela | architectural group of 15 small pyramids around a large walled quadrangle |
| facade | the decorative outer sides of a building |
| plaster | mixture of lime or gypsum, sand and water |
| papyrus | a reed that grew in ancient Egypt that was used to write on |
| script | a group of signs and letters used to make words |
| scribe | an ancient Egyptian man who learned to read and write hieroglyphics and hieratic |
| Rosetta Stone | astone with Egyptian and Greek writing; it listed all things the pharoah has done good for priests and the people of Egypt |
| mummification | to preserve a dead body by embalming it and wrapping it with cloth |
| necropolis | a large cemetery |
| Mesoamerica | term used by archaeologists for the ancient culture of Mexico |
| maize | corn |
| meridian | any of the lines of longitude running north and south on a globe or map, representing a circle or half-circle |
| equator | an imaginary circle around the earth that divides the earth's surface into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres |
| floodplain | the area in a river valley covered with soil deposited by floods |
| scale | the proportion that a map, model, etc. bears to the thing that it represents |
| obsidian | a dark, hard, glassy volcanic rock |
| limestone | rock composed entirely or mostly of carbonate or calcium, from which building stones, lime, etc. are made |
| climate | a region considered with reference to the kind of weather prevailing there |
| causeway | a road or path raised above the natural level of the ground by stones, earth, timber, etc. serving as a dry passage over wet and marshy ground |
