History Key Words

Mayas

• plaza

• Mesoamerica

• polytheism

• ulama

• city-state

• astronomy

• calendar

• hieroglyph

Aztecs

• Tenochtitlán

• Moctezuma II

• porter

• pochtecas

• macuahuitl

• polytheism

• reincarnation

• Huitzilopochtli

• Quetzalcoatl

• Tlaloc

• ulama

• chinampas

• granary

• slash-and-burn

• causeway

• adobe

• hieroglyph

• epidemic

• Hernán Cortés

• Mama-Quilla

• Sapa Inca

• ayullu/ ayullus

• chasqui

• quipu

• Intihuatana

• terrace farming

• irrigation canal

• storehouse

• litter

• aqueduct

• adobe

• Machu Picchu

• Atahualpa

• Fracisco Pizarro

Mississippians

• temperate

• multiple-cropping

• intercropping

• epidemic

• wattle-and-daub

• palisade

• moat

• bluff

• earthen mounds

• chiefdom

• hierarchal

• tribute

• chungke

• polytheistic

• dugout canoe

• Hernando de Soto