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| Chucuito | A kingdom that dominated the highlands region near Lake Titicaca. It depended on the cultivation of potatoes and the herding of llamas and alpacas. It is the capital city of Chimu. |
| Chimu- | the lowlands the powerful kingdom of Chimu the Incas arrived in around mid-15th century. It governed a large and thriving society. Irrigations networks tapped the rivers and streams flowing from the Andes mountains. |
| Quipu | A mnemonic aid to keep track of Inca bureaucrats responsibilities. Quipu consisted of an array of small cords of many colors and lengths all coming from one cord. |
| Inca Roads | The inca roads were the best constructed before modern times. They were paved with stone, shaded by trees and accommodated horsemen. They consisted of two roads one that passed through the mountains and one that ran along the coastline |
| Ayllu | cultivatiors who were mostly pesants of common birth who lived in communities. They consisted pf many families who lived together and share everything from land, tools, animals, crops and work. |
| Easter Island | was the site of dramatic problems because of overpopulation. Polyneisans migrated in the early centuries and by 1500 it reaches its high at 10 thoughsand. |
| Sandeluer dynasty | built a powerful state and had a massive stone palace built at Nan Madol It was built in 1200 and it inlcuded 93 islets and had sea walls / breakwaters on 3 sides |
| Ali'i nui | they were high classes of chiefs. They were intermarried and ate fish and other food that were kapu to commoners. They had to wear cloaks that included bright red and yellow bird feathers. |
| Marae | ceremonical preceint and temple structure. Often had several terraced floors with rock or coral wall designating the boundaries of the scared space. |
| Toltects | Central American society that was centered on the city of Tula |
| Tula | It became an important center of weaving, pottery and obsidian work. It shared many atchitectura designs with Maya city. |
| Mexica | The migrants drawn to central Mexico from the northwestern regions. They are also known as the Aztecs because they dominated the alliance that built the Aztec Empire. |
| Chinampas | Agricultural gardens used by the Aztecs in which fertile muck from lake bottoms was dredged and built up into small plots |
| Huitzilopochtli | Sun god and patron deity of the Aztecs |
| Iroquois | Several families lived together and supervised cultivation of fields surrounding their settlements |
| Cahokia | Large structure in modern Illinois that was constructed by the mound-building peoples; it was the third largest structure in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans |
