LATIN AMERICA VOCABULAY

a farming method in with trees and other plants on a plot of land are cut down and burned to enrich the poor soil of the rainforest.

• hieroglyphics

• potato cultivation

• slash and burn agriculture

• polytheism

a symbol derived from a picture that stands for a word, idea, or sound.

• polytheism

• hieroglyphic

• Huitzilopochtli

• scale/key

Spanish explorers who conquered territory

• Aztecs

• Incas

• indigenous people

• conquistadors

Took over Aztec city which is now Mexico City in 1519

• Beringia

• Moctezuma

• Hernan Cortes

• Quipu

a lower ranked social group of mixed American Indian descent

• mestizos

• mulattoes

• creoles

• peninsulares

the exchange of people. other living things and ideas between two hemispheres

• treaty

• Columbian Exchange

• colonialism

• triple alliance

An Aztec emperor

• Pizarro

• Nahuati

• Montezuma

• Beringia

study of human and nonhuman features of Earth

• cartography

• polytheism

• topography

• geography

north, south, east, and west

• cardinal directions

• intermediate directions

• latitude

• longitude

northwest, southwest, northeast, southeast

• intermediate directions

• cardinal directions

• latitude

• longitude