 | Term | Definition |
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maize |
the most important crop to the mayas and its corn |
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slash and burn agriculture |
a farming teqnique used by the mayans where they cut down the trees to clear the land and they use the ashes as fertalizer and once the soil is dry they travel to a differen land |
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hieroglyph |
a way of writting using symbols or pictures |
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causeway |
raised streets of hard earth used to travel over lakes and wetlands. connects city of tenochtitlan |
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artisans |
skilled workers who practice a trade, created jewelery,garments,pottery,sculpters, and other goods |
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aqueduct |
pipes or channels desighned to cary water from distant sources |
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tenochtitlan |
the capital of the aztec empire and was oneof the first cities to develop aqueducts built on the spot with an eagle with a snake in its mouth on a cactus |
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lake texcoco |
a lake now drained in central mexico where mexico city now stands formally the site of the ancient aztec capital of tenochtitlan |
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quipu |
noted information about taxes deaths births and harvestes are knotted on to it |
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terrace |
steplike ledges cut into the mountainside used for fields or crops and they stopped soil from being washed away from the rain |
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Cahokia |
the great city wich is now illinois |
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Cuzco |
a small village in the Andes mountains |
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Pueblo |
flat topped hill village and they were alot like our high rise apartment buildings |
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