Chapter 3 Ancient Cultures of the Americas

a mountain chain of western South America

• Rocky Mountains
• Himalayas
• Black Hills
• Andes

the capital city of the Incan Empire

• Lima
• Cuzco
• Tenochtitlan
• Census

an official count of the people in a certain place at a certain time

• census
• terraces
• kiva
• quipu

a group of knotted strings used by the Incas to record information

• quipu
• kivas
• pueblos
• hierogyphics

step-like ledges cut into the mountains to make land suitable for farming

• Andes
• Mayas
• terraces
• Great Plains

a people who lived in the Valley of Mexico

• Incas
• Tenochtitlan
• Aztecs
• Mayas

capital city of the Aztecs

• Anasazi
• Cuzco
• Tenochtitlan
• Anasazi

a people who established a great civilization in Middle America

• Mayas
• Aztecs
• Incas
• Greeks

a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land

• slash-and-dig agriculture
• slash-and-destroy agriculture
• slash-and-cut agriculture
• slash-and-burn agriculture

Mayan word for corn

• census
• quipu
• maize
• kiva