Unit 7 Vocab

1. a large group of people who share certain advanced ways of living and working

• Class

• Civilization

• Workplace

• Building

writing that uses symbols

• Writing

• Cursive

• Hieroglyphic

• Language

a large plaza in a city center, surrounded by temples and palaces, where religious rituals and other public ceremonies took place

• Ceremonial center

• City

• Church

• Town

related to or coming from a god or gods

• Sacrifices

• Rituals

• Divinations

• Divine

a set of actions that is always performed the same way as part of a religious ceremony

• Sacrifices

• Ritual

• Legacy

• Divine

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

• Mercenary

• Warrior

• War

• Barbarian

shared by a community or group

• Property

• Collaboration

• Communal

• Empire

an Incan clan (group of related families), the basic unit of Incan society

• Sapa Inca

• Commoners

• Ayllu

• Communal

the time it takes Earth to travel once around the sun

• Rotation

• Month

• Calendar

• Solar year

the sun god in Inca mythology

• Viracocha

• Inti

• Sapa Inca

• Kon