Aztec Vocabulary

1. a vehicle containing a bed or seat enclosed by curtains and carried on men's shoulders or by animals.

• rickshaw
• litter

• carriage
• palanquin

a raised road built over water to connect an island to a mainland

• Tunnel
• Causeway
• Bridge
• Coastway

 a channel dug by people, used by boats or for irrigation

• lake
• stream
• canal
• river

a person whose job is copying written information

• typist
• stenographer
• clerk
• scribe

an ancient book with handwritten pages or parts

• transcript
• codex

• scroll
• novel

a picture or drawing that stands for a word or phrase

• pictogram
• sketch
• illustration
• glyph

a period of time in which a ruler is in power

• dominion
• rule
• reign
• control

the presence of many different kinds of landforms, waterways, or other geographic features in a region

• geographical diversity

• cartography diversity

• topography diversity

• demography diversity

a flat piece of land carved out of the side of a mountain or hill

• a terrace
• a plateau
• a valley
• a canyon

a large area of high, flat ground

• valley
• canyon
• mountain
• plateau