Diverse Societies of North America
An early Native American people who lived in the American Southwest ...
Answer: Anasazi.
A member of an aboriginal people of Yucatan which had attained a relatively high level of civilization before the discovery of America ...
Answer: Maya.
The Feathered Serpent – a god of the Toltecs and other Mesoamerican peoples ...
Answer: Quetzalcoatl.
In Incan society, a small community or clan whose members worked together for the common good ...
Answer: ayllu.
Relating to a Mound Builder culture that flourished in North America between A.D. 800 and 1500 ...
Answer: Mississippian.
A symbolic picture – especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone ...
Answer: glyph.
The capital of the Aztec Empire now the site of Mexico City ...
Answer: Tenochtitlan.
A city in S Peru: ancient Inca ruins ...
Answer: Cuzco (or Cusco).
Villages of apartment-like buildings made of clay and stone, built by the Anasazi and later peoples of the American Southwest ...
Answer: pueblos.
A book with pages that could be turned ...
Answer: codex.
Aztec war and solar deity ...
Answer: Huitzilopochtli.
In the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year ...
Answer: mita.
The American Indian tribes that, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected burial mounds and other earthworks in the Mississippi drainage basin and SE U.S. ...
Answer: Mound Builders.
A book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation ...
Answer: Popul Vuh.
Last Aztec emperor of Mexico, 1502-20 ...
Answer: Montezuma II.
An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information ...
Answer: quipu.
Animals or other natural objects that serve as symbols of the unity of clans or other groups of people ...
Answer: totems.
An ancient Mayan city in N Guatemala occupied c200 B.C. to A.D. 900 ...
Answer: Tikal.
An association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire ...
Answer: Triple Alliance.
Emperor of the Inca Empire, 1438-71 ...
Answer: Pachacuti.