Chapter 16: The Early Americas - St. Johns County School ...

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1. Atahualpa

Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish.

2. Causeway

A raised road across water or wet ground.

3. Conquistadors Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

4. Cuzco

The capital city of the Incan Empire, Located in present-day Peru.

5. Francisco Pizarro

A conquistador like Cortes, who conquered the Incas in Peru and help to begin more advances in South America. Besides miners, farmers, priests, friars and missionaries went to South America after it was conquered by the conquistadors.

6. Hern?n Cort?s

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.

7. Hieroglyph

An ancient writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.

8. Hogan

A cone-shaped shelter built by covering a log frame with mud or adobe.

9. Isthmus

A narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas.

10. Maize

An early form of corn grown by Native Americans

11. Masonry

Bricks, blocks, stones, and unreinforced and reinforced concrete products.

12. Mita

In the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.

13. Moctezuma II

Aztec ruler from 1502 to 1520; he was the emperor of the Aztecs when Cort?s and his army conquered the empire. He was taken prisoner and killed during battle with the Spanish army.

14. Observatories Buildings used to study astronomy; Mayan priests watched the stars from these buildings.

15. Pachacuti

Ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471; launched a series of military campaigns that gave Incas control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca.

16. Quechua

First deemed the official language of the Incas under Pachacuti, it is still spoken by most Peruvians today.

17. Quipu

An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.

18. Sinkhole

A depression produced in a region where soluble rock has been removed by groundwater.

19. Yucatan A peninsula in Central America extending into the Peninsula Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea.

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