Chapter 12 Vocabulary

Step like ledges cut into mountains to make land suitable for farming

• Kiva

• Great Plains

• Terraces

• Andes

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

• Quipu

• Maize

• Mound Builders

• Mayas

People of a powerful South American empire during the 1400 and 1500's

• Aztecs

• Pueblo

• Andes

• Incas

The capital city of the Incan Empire, located in present-day Peru

• Slash-and-burn Agriculture

• Cuzco

• Tenochtitlan

• Terraces

A mountain chain of western South America

• Quipu

• Ancestral Puebloans

• Kiva

• Andes

Corn

• Incas

• Mayas

• Maize

• Cuzco

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

• Great Plains

• Slash-and-burn agriculture

• Mound Builders

• Pueblo

A people who established a great civilization in Middle America

• Mayas

• Incas

• Aztecs

• Ancestral Puebloans

The capital city of the Aztecs

• Andes

• Terraces

• Maize

• Tenochtitlan

People who live in the valley of Mexico

• Incas

• Andes

• Aztecs

• Kiva