Pre-Columbian Latin America

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Huge South American empire; conquered in 1533 C.E.

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Inca

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Empire in civil war when Spanish arrived

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Inca

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Children of the Sun.

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Inca

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Civilization that thrived alongside the Aztecs in the 1400s-1500s in the Americas.

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Inca

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Farming on chinampas, floating fields made with lake mud.

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Aztec

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Settled on an island in Lake Texcoco (now Mexico City).

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Aztec

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Rubber people known for large head carvings.

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Olmec

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Known for metalworking; interacted with the Maya.

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Toltec

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Lived on the Yucatan peninsula and Guatemala between 250 and 900.

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Maya

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Language spoken: quechua.

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Inca