Mesoamerica Vocab

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Main crop in highlands, known as corn

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Maize

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Civilization in the Andes of Peru

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Inca

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Aztec city now Mexico City

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Tenochtitlan

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Artificial fields for feeding populations

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Chinampas

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Stepped platforms in mountainsides for building and agriculture

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Terraces

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Mesoamerica's first civilization known for large stone heads.

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Olmec

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Inca farming method for hilly terrain: __________.

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Terrace farming

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Francisco Pizzaro was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca empire.

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True

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Aztec emperor who confronted Hernan Cortes

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Mocteczuma II

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Agriculture method involving cutting and burning forests for crops.

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Slash and Burn Farming