Vocabulary: WH - 8-1 Mesoamerica - SSBS

Native Americans who ruled Mexico and area before the Spanish conquered it. Built an empire around Tenochtitlan.

• Aztec
• Maya
• Inca
• Olmec

a Spanish conqueror of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

• Quipu
• Montezuma
• Spaniard
• conquistador

An empire of South American Indian people living in the central Andes Mountains (Peru)

• Maya
• Inca
• Olmec
• Aztec

Meso- American Indian people of Yucatan Peninsula between 250-900 AD

• Maya
• Inca
• Aztec
• Olmec

Region including central and southern Mexico and much of Central America

• Yucatan Peninsula
• Central America
• Mesoamerica
• Andes Mountain