Mesoamerica Vocab

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The region extending from modern Mexico through Central America

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Mesoamerica

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a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops

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Slash and Burn Agriculture

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a social structure in the shape of a pyramid, with layers representing social classes of different rank

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Social Pyramid

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an Incan clan (group of related families), the basic unit of Incan society.

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Ayllu

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shared by a community or group

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Communal

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a regional variety of a language

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Dialect

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a symbol for a word, idea, or sound in a hieroglyphic system of writing

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Glyph

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a vertical stone slab or pillar with carvings or inscriptions

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Stele

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A Mesoamerican agricultural technique where small artificial islands used to grow crops.

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Chinampa

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Original name of what we now call the Aztec civilization.

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Mexica