Unit 7 Vocab- Meso & South America

native to an area

• chinampas

• indigenous

• quipu

• chasquis

an Incan city that was rediscovered in 1911 in Peru

• Tenochtitlan

• Texacoco

• Machu Picchu

• Mexico City

official messengers of the Inca Empire

• indigenous

• chasquis

• quipu

• chinampas

an ancient Incan device for recording information,

consisting of colored threads knotted in different ways

• quipu

• chasquis

• chinampas

• indigenous

indigenous people who built an empire along the west coast

of South America

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

floating gardens built by the Aztecs

• chinampas

• slash and burn

• quipu

• chasquis

indigenous people who built an empire in central Mexico

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

a farming method (used by the  Maya) where land is

cleared by cutting and burning plants

• chinampas

• quipu

• slash and burn

• chasquis

indigenous people who built an empire in southern Mexico

and northern Central America

• Maya

• Aztec

• Inca

the area from present-day Nicaragua to north of 

Mexico City

• South America

• North America

• MesoAmerica

• East America