WH Mesoamerica

Goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors

• ransom

• tribute

• taxes

• finances

Name used for areas of Mexico and Central America where ancient empires flourished.

• South America

• Mexico

• Mesoamerica

• Bolivia

First known civilization in Mesoamerica

• Olmec

• Toltec

• Aztec

• Maya

Capital of the Aztecs; present-day Mexico City.

• La Texcoco

• Tegucigalpa

• Montezuma

• Tenochtitlan

First major city in Mesoamerica

• Tikal

• Teotihuacan

• Santiago

• Tenochtitlan

large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people

• Tenochtitlan

• Mesoamerica

• Chichen Itza

• Tulum

The urban center in present day Guatemala

• Tikal

• Mexico City

• San Juan

• Titicaca

hieroglyphics

• writing based on pictures

• type of writing used by the Spanish

• similar to calligraphy

• writing system used by the Romans