Social 8 Our Worldviews Chapter 7

a positive motivational influence

• altepetl

• incentive

• pre-Columbia

• incarnation

a geographic area or region that supports similar forms of plant and animal life due to factors of climate and geography

• ecological zone

• conquistador

• garrison

• oral traditions

a payment made by one country to another as a sign, something given or done as an expression of esteem

• plateau

• conquistador

• tribute

• obsidian

the political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests

• conquistador

• obsidian

• incentive

• militarism

spirit taking physical form

• incentive

• oral traditions

• pre-Columbia

• incarnation

Before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

• AD

• pre-Columbia

• semi-nomadic

• pre-Columbia

combining nomadic wandering and farming in settlements

• conquistador

• semi-nomadic

• incarnation

• pre-Columbia

city-state - basic level of organization in Mesoamericac

• garrison

• altepetl

• plateau

• tribute

a large area of flat land elevated high above sea level

• altepetl

• plateau

• oral traditions

• pre-Columbia

stories passed down by word of mouth

• incarnation

• garrison

• stories

• oral traditions