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| terrace | a raised piece of land with the top leveled off to promote farming |
| human sacrifice | the aztecs believed that doing this would keep th Gods happy and ensure good crops |
| quipu | Inca's system of record keeping using various colors and lengths of colored string, knotted and patterned carrying info. abt. resources |
| Beringia | the land bridge between Asia and Alaska |
| pueblo | great stone dwellings built by the Anasazi |
| Asia | continent west of the US, early Americans were thought to cross from there to North America on the land bridge |
| archaeologist | scientists who learned about the past by studying artifacts or things left behind |
| Ice Age | periods of very cold temperatures when part of the earth was covered with large ice sheets |
| maize | early form of corn grown by native americans |
| artifact | things left behind from early people such as stone tools, weapons, baskets and carvings |
| heiroglyphics | form of writing developed by the Mayan people using symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds |
| theocracy | a society ruled by religious leaders (ex. Mayan civilization) |
| adobe | brick made from sun-dried mud |
| Maya | built their civilization in rainforests of current day Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize. Pulled huge stones to build monuments and pyramids. Labor was performed by enslaved people. Planted, maize, beans, sweet potatoes. |
| Mound Builders | these people were not a single group but many different people who built mounds as far south as Florida and as far north as the Great Lakes, some mounds contained burial chambers |
| Onondaga | one of the 5 Iroquois nations |
| Aztec | a group of hunters that after the fall of the Maya were looking for a permanent home found Lake Texcoco |
| Tuscarora | an Iroquoian-language speaking group in NY and Canada |
| Oneida | one of the 5 Iroquois nations |
| Inca | great civilization developed in the western highlands of South America. The largest of the early American civilizations. |
| Cayuga | one of the 5 Iroquois nations |
| Mohawks | one of the 5 Iroquois nations |
| Seneca | one of the 5 Iroquois nations |
| Iroquois | native people who lived in the northern woodlands of eastern North America. They had a formal law code and formed federations or governments that linked different groups. |
| Anasazi | people who lived in the four corners: the meeting place of present day Utah, Colorado, Arizna and New Mexico. They built great stone dwellings that the Spanish explorers called "pueblos". They also built dwellings on the walls of steep cliffs. Some of the pueblos resembled apartment buildings. |
