MesoAmerica

Mesoamerica

• Middle America area, extending from modern day Mexico to Central America.
• the last Mayan kingdom
• Powerful Aztec monarch who got stoned because he let the Spanish into his empire
• An area of land in Central America where the Mayan civilization settled.
• carved steps of flat land up the side of the mountain to create flat land for farming.

Maya

• Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America. Their civilization was well established from approximately 1000 BCE through 1700 CE.
• a professional soldier hired by a foreign army
• raised roads across water or wet ground that connected Tenochtitlan to the outside
• A system of knots used for record keeping by the Incas
• deserted city and estate of the Incas located in the Andes Mountains

Tenochtitlan

• Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
• Middle America area, extending from modern day Mexico to Central America.
• An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior and injuries
• Very accurate calendar / 18 months each with 20 days (360 days and has the Sun god in the middle - with human hearts in each hand
• a Spanish explorer best known for conquering the Incas in the 1530s.

slash and burn agriculture

• a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops
• Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America. Their civilization was well established from approximately 1000 BCE through 1700 CE.
• the last Mayan kingdom
• Powerful Aztec monarch who got stoned because he let the Spanish into his empire
• An area of land in Central America where the Mayan civilization settled.

smallpox

• a very serious illness that caused the death of many Mesoamericans
• Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
• a professional soldier hired by a foreign army
• raised roads across water or wet ground that connected Tenochtitlan to the outside
• A system of knots used for record keeping by the Incas

chinampas

• floating gardens or small islands built on lakes
• a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops
• Middle America area, extending from modern day Mexico to Central America.
• An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior and injuries
• Very accurate calendar / 18 months each with 20 days (360 days and has the Sun god in the middle - with human hearts in each hand

maize

• a Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn.
• a very serious illness that caused the death of many Mesoamericans
• Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America. Their civilization was well established from approximately 1000 BCE through 1700 CE.
• the last Mayan kingdom
• Powerful Aztec monarch who got stoned because he let the Spanish into his empire

Aztecs

• a Mesoamerican people who built a vast empire in central Mexico and extended into Central America, flourished from the 1200s CE through 1500s CE when it was destroyed by invaders from Spain.
• floating gardens or small islands built on lakes
• Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
• a professional soldier hired by a foreign army
• raised roads across water or wet ground that connected Tenochtitlan to the outside

Nahuatl

• language used by the Aztec
• a Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn.
• a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops
• Middle America area, extending from modern day Mexico to Central America.
• An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior and injuries

Codex

• name Aztecs called a book that looks like an accordion
• a Mesoamerican people who built a vast empire in central Mexico and extended into Central America, flourished from the 1200s CE through 1500s CE when it was destroyed by invaders from Spain.
• a very serious illness that caused the death of many Mesoamericans
• Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America. Their civilization was well established from approximately 1000 BCE through 1700 CE.
• the last Mayan kingdom