| A | B |
|---|
| land bridge | bridge between Siberia and Alaska over which people migrated |
| Tikal | largest Mayan city |
| tribute | payment from conquered peoples |
| Quechua | Incan language |
| kiva | large underground chamber used for religious ceremonies |
| Olmecs | earliest American civilization which emerged in the tropical forests along the Mexican Gulf Coast |
| Teotihuacan | Aztec city that emerged in the Valley of Mexico |
| quipu | collection of knotted, colored strings used for recordkeeping |
| pueblos | large village built by Indians in the Southwest |
| potlatch | ceremony where a wealthy person distibutes gifts to large numbers of guests |
| Anasazi | cliff dwellers of the desert Southwest |
| Hohokams | "Vanished Ones"; Indians of the desert Southwest who lived in present day Arizona |
| Nezahualcoyotl | Aztec poet king |
| Pachacuti | founder of the Incan empire |
| chinampas | artificial islands made of earth piled on reed mats that were anchored to the shallow lake bed. |
| plains | fertile, flat grassland |
| global warming | world-wide temperature increase |
