Lesson 27 & 28 Vocab Practice

a Mesoamerican people who built an empire in central Mexico that flourished from 1428 to 1519 C.E.

• alliance

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

a solid earthen roadway built across water or low ground

• conformity

• alliance

• causeway

• captured

a group of countries, city-states, or other entities who agree to work together, usually for common defense or trade

• causeway

• Aztec

• conformity

• alliance

uniform behavior according to a set of social or cultural rules or beliefs

• causeway

• alliance

• conformity

• Aztecs

a professional soldier who is paid to fight for another country or group

• mercenary

• conformity

• Aztecs

• alliance

the capital city of the Aztec Empire

• Aztecs

• Tenochtitlán

• Guatemala

• causeway

a public square or open area in a city where people gather

• vital

• Tenochtitlán

• mercenary

• plaza

disagreement

• dispute

• vital

• impressive

• alliance

to free

• hereditary

• dispute

• elevated

• emancipated

passed on from parent to child; inherited

• dispute

• elevated

• emanicpated

• hereditary