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| Incas | People of a powerful South American empire during the 1400s and 1500s |
| Andes | A mountain Chain of western South American |
| Cuzco | The capital city of the Incan empire, Located in Present Day Peru |
| Census | An offical count of people in a certain place at a certain time |
| Quipu | A group of knotted strings, used by the Incas to record information |
| Terraces | Steplike ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming |
| Aztecs | people who live in the Valley of Mexico |
| Tenochtitlan | Capital city of Aztecs |
| Mayans | people who established a Gret Civilazation in Middle America |
| Slash-and-burn-Agriculture | A farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land |
| Maize | Corn |
| Heiroglyphics | The Signs and Symbols that made up the Mayan writing systems |
| Mound Builders | Native American groups who built earthen mounds |
| Anasazi | One of the Native American people of the Southwest |
| Puelbo | A cluster of Native American stone or adobe dwellings |
| Kiva | A room used by the Puelbo peoples for religious ceramonies |
| Great plains | A mostly flat and grassy region of western North American |
