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| Potlatch | A ceremonial feast used to display rank and prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans. |
| Anasazi | An early Native American people who lived in the American Southwest. |
| Pueblos | Villiages of large apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone, built by the Anaszi and later peoples of the American Southwest. |
| Mississippian | Relating to a Mound Builder culture that flourished in Borth American between A.D. 800 and 1500 |
| Iroquois | A group of Native American peoples who spoke related languages, lived in the eastern Great Lakes region of North America, and formed an alliance in the late 1500s. |
| Totems | Animals or other natural objects that serve as symbols of the unity of clans or other groups of people. |
| Tikal | A major center in northern Guatemala. |
| Glyph | A symbolic picture- especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone. |
| Codex | A book with pages that can be turned. |
| Popol Vuh | A book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation. |
| Obsidian | A hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons. |
| Quetzalcoatl | The Feathered Serpent- a god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples. |
| Triple Alliance | An association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire. |
| Montezuma II | Aztec emporer who was crowned ruler in 1502. |
| Pachacuti | Aztec emporer who was crowned in 1502.Ican leader who was a powerful and ambitious ruler who took the throne in 1438. |
| Ayllu | In Incan society, a small community or clan whose members worked together for the common good. |
| Mita | In the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year. |
| Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. |
