SOCIAL ACT #1 VOCABULARY

Bering Strait 

•  The Bering Strait is a strait that separates the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point. 

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Olmecs 

•  The Olmecs were the first elaborate pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica, flourishing from approximately 1200 to 400 BCE. 

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Mayas

•  A Native American people who lived in what is now Mexico and northern Central America. 

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Aztecs 

• The Aztecs were a Nahuatl-speaking people who ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico in the 15th and early 16th centuries.  

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Caral  

• Is known as the capital of the Inca Empire and Machu Picchu as the base of one of the last Inca rulers.   

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Incas  

• An aboriginal American people who, at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, inhabited the western part of South America. 

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Tenochtitlan 

• Was the capital of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Mexica Empire. It was founded in 1274 on the marshes of Lake Texcoco. 

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Astronomy 

• Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.

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Hieroglyphic writin 

• Hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. 

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