| A | B |
|---|
| Glaciers | huge sheets of ice |
| Mesoamerica | Middle America |
| Olmec | people who had a far-reaching trading empire that started in 1200 B.C. |
| Teotihuacan | "Place of the Gods",one of the first planned cities in the Americas, had a population of over 100,000. |
| Maya | Civilization in the rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula. |
| Toltec | people who seized northern Mexico, they were warrior farmers. |
| Monopoly | control all trade |
| Moche | people who were located in the dry coastal desert of what is now Peru. |
| Inca | people who had a vast empire along the Andes Mountains |
| Cuzco | capital of the Inca empire founded in A.D. 1100 |
| Hohokam | people who planted gardens between the Salt and Gila Rivers, dug more than 500 miles of canals |
| Anasazi | people who lived in the canyons and cliffs of New Mexico, carved buildings out of the cliffs |
| Cahokia | Mississippians largest city, had a population around 30,000 people |
| Peten | Mayain word for flat region, located in present day Guatemala |
| Tenochtitlan | capital city of the Aztecs |
| Pachacuti | greatest Incan leader |
| Quipu | a rope with knotted cords of different lenghts and colors used to keep records |
| Igloos | dome-shaped homes, from blocks of Ice and snow |
| Adobe | apartment-like home made from sun-dried mud bricks |
| Confederations | governments that link several groups |
| Iroquois | Native Americans who formed a league to end fighting among other tribes, had a code of laws |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian sea captain who convinced Spain's rulers that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Hispaniola | island that makes up the nations of Haiti and Dominican Republic |
| Conquistadors | soldier-explorers sent to the Americas by Spain |
| Extremadura | part of Spain known for its poor soil, hot summers, and icy winters |
| Hernan Cortes | Spainish Conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire |
| Montezuma II | Aztec emperor when Cortes arrived |
| Malintzin | Mayan women who translated Aztec language for Cortes |
| Treason | disloyalty to the government |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire. |
| Atahualpa | Incan emperor when Pizarro arrived |
