MesoAmerica Vocab

Front

Stepped platforms built into mountainsides

Back

Terraces

Front

corn

Back

maize

Front

Beans used to make chocolate

Back

cacao

Front

A civilization that greatly influences others.

Back

mother culture

Front

A medicine healer

Back

shaman

Front

artificial fields

Back

chinampas

Front

Most powerful class?

Back

Nobles

Front

shared

Back

communal

Front

Lived and worked on private land

Back

Serfs

Front

Spanish conquerors

Back

conquistadors