| A | B |
|---|
| Meso-American peninsula which resides in the Gulf of Mexico; Home to the Maya | Yucatan Peninsula |
| Central city of the Maya | Chichen Itza |
| Central city of the Aztec | Tenochtitlan |
| City of the Andes; rests high in the Andes Mountains | Machu Picchu |
| System of farming whereby flat sections of land were cut out of the mountainside | Terrace Farming |
| Capital city of the Inca | Cuzco |
| "Mother" of mesoamerican civilizations | Olmecs |
| Olmec ballgame passed to the Mayan; losers were often sacrificed | Pok-a-Tok |
| Location of the island city of Tenochtitlan | Lake Texcoco |
| Raised roadway allowing for travel from an island to the mainland | Causeway |
| Record-keeping system of Inca using knotted rope | Quipa |
| Floating rafts on which crops were grown | Chinampas |
| A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses | Isthmus |
| Region & culture area stretching from Central Mexico to Belize | Mesoamerica |
| System of writing using pictures to represent words or phrases | Glyphs |
| Bark-paper books | Codex |
| Mayan version of the story of creation | Popol Vuh |
| Aztec god thought to return to Mexico bringing light & peace | Quetzalcoatl |
| City-states which formed the Aztec empire | Triple Alliance |
| Last emperor of the Aztec Empire | Montezuma II |
