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| Culture | The entire way of life that a people has developed; behavior,customs,ideas,beliefs,and skills. |
| Mound Builders | Built large mounds of earth to bury their dead. |
| Inuits | People of the North that adapted to their climate by making use of animal products. |
| Peoples of the North/Inuits | Since food was scarce, they could not live in the same place all year round. |
| Great Basin | This area is very dry causing few animals or plants to be able to live there. Shoshones and Utes spent most of their time looking for food. |
| Aztecs' capital city | Tenochtitlan, a city built on an island in Lake Texcoco. |
| Mayan' cities | Tikal and Coplan,(located in present day Mexico and Central America) wealthy and powerful people lived in stone palaces. |
| Incas' capital city | Cuzco, located high in the Andes Mountains. |
| Mayans' major accomplishment | Priests developed an accurate 365-day calendar. |
| Mayan communication | Priests invented a system of hieroglyphics, or writing that uses pictures to represent words and ideas. |
| Incas' major accomplishment | With only human labor, ropes, and wooden rollers, these people moved huge stones weighing as much as 200 tons into place. These buildings have survived hundreds of earthquakes. |
| Aztecs' major accomplishment | Farmers dug canals and filled parts of the lake to create farmland. Floating gardens provided as many as 7 crops per year. |
| Pueblos' customs | These people believed that kachina ceremonies would ensure rainfall and good crops. |
| Kachinas | masked dancers who represented the spirits in a ceremony to help ensure rainfall and good crops. |
| League of the Iroquois | The 5 nations would come together and vote on matters that affected all of the tribes. |
| Mayan civilization location | This civilization grew up in the rain forests of present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala |
| Incan civilization location | This empire stretched for almost 3000 miles along the western coast of South America. |
| Aztec civilization location | This empire stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Central Mexico |
| Aztec prisoners of war | This empire sacrificed tens of thousands of people each year to please their gods. |
| Drought | A long dry spell, with very little rainfall. The Southwest region is the most likely to suffer from a drought. |
| Potlatch | People of the Northwest coast held these ceremonial dinners to show off their wealth. |
| Women in the Great Plains | In spring, women broke up the soft ground using hoes made from animal bones. They planted corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. |
| Iroquois women | Iroquois women chose the sachems (tribal chiefs). Women also owned all of the property and did the farming. |
| Great Plains main source of food | In summer, they traveled for miles in search of buffalo. In the winter they hunted near the village. |
