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| POTLATCH | a ceremonial feast used to display rank & prosperity in some Northwest Coast tribes of Native Americans |
| ANASAZI | an early Native American people who lived in the American Southwest; were ancestors of pueblo peoples |
| PUEBLOS | villages of large apartment-like buildings made of clay & stone (cliff dwellings), built by Anasazi & later others from southwest |
| MISSISSIPPIAN | relating to a Mound Builder culture that flourished in North America between 800-1500; includes Hopewell & Adena as well |
| IROQUOIS | a group of Native American peoples who spoke related languages, lived in the eastern Great Lakes region (eastern woodlands), & formed an alliance in the late 1500s |
| TOTEMS | animals or other natural objects that serve as symbols of the unity of clans or other groups of people |
| MEMBERS OF IROQUOIS LEAGUE | Oneida, Seneca & Cayuga |
| NORTHWEST COAST TRIBES | Haida, Nootka, Kwakiutl |
| TIKAL & Chichen Itza | the Maya's spectacular cities |
| GLYPH | a symbolic picture- especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone |
| CODEX | a book w/ pages that can be turned |
| POPOL VUH | a book containing a version of the Mayan story of creation |
| MAIN PURPOSE OF MAYAN & INCAN CALENDAR | religios ceremony timing |
| MAYA | Mesoamerican culture that declined before Aztecs & Incas flourished, worshipped many gods, played ball game as ritual to bring rain & solar cycles, had most advanced writing |
| OBSIDIAN | a hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons |
| QUETZALCOATL | the Feathered Serpant-a god of the Toltecs & other Mesoamerican peoples that was said to bring a golden age |
| TRIPLE ALLIANCE | an association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco & Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire |
| MONTEZUMA II | crowned emperor; Aztec Empire began to weaken under his control |
| TOLTEC | mesoamerican culture; builders of pyramids & temples; expanded empire through war & conquest |
| AZTEC | Valley of Mexico; founded Tenochtitlan (largest city of everywhere for that time); used massive amounts of human sacrifice; origionally known as Mexica |
| PACHACUTI | ruler who quickly expanded Inca Empire |
| AYLLU | in Incan society, a small community or clan whose members worked together for a common good |
| MITA | in Incan Empire; the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year |
| QUIPU | an arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information |
| INCA | capital city was Cuzco located in southern Peru; used diplomacy & bureaucracy to maintain huge empire |
| CHASQUIS | Inca runner-messangers that used ellaborite road system |
| TEOTIHAUCAN | first major civilization of Central Mexico |
