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STS Flashcards

1
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MIT stands for

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Branches of Science are?

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Natural Science
Social science
Applied science
Formal science

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Branch of Science which is the study of formal systems, such as those under the branches of logic and mathematics.

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Formal science

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Branch of Science which is the study of natural phenomena (cosmological, geological, physical, chemical, and biological factors

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Natural sciences

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Branch of Science which is the study of human behavior in its social and cultural aspects.

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Social Sciences

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Branch of Science which is the discipline that is used to apply existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical applications

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Applied Science

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Latin word Scientia which means?

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Knowledge

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A systematic and methodical activity of building and organizing knowledge about how the universe behaves

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Science

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*About to write and share the ideas with others.
*includes theories and all available in systematic explanations

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Science is an idea

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*the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world

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Science is an intellectual activity

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  • explains that science is both knowledge and activity done by human wc is built up through experimental testing of ideas.
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Science is a body if knowledge

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*means to improve life and to survive life.

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Science as a personal and social activity

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Science= Fundamental Human Nature

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Curiosity Inquisivity

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A way of thinking that utilizes REASON

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Logic

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Age of civilization where humans came up with scientific innovations and discoveries for survival

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In the world: Ancient Ages

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1st recorded civilizations

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300-750 BC

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Present day Mesopotamia

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Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait, Turkey

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Greek meaning “between two rivers”
The Tigris-Euphrates river system

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Mesopotamia

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  • Earliest writing system (3000 bc)
  • adopted until the development of the Phonecian script
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Cuneiform

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*modern day Iraq
* “the black headed people”
* “land of the black headed people”
* first to use plow
* invented sailboat, wheel and number system

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Sumerian Civilization

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Irrigation to collect floodwaters coming from Tigris-Euphrates

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Flood banks/Levees

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Based on phases of the moon, basis for having 12 lunar months in a year

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Lunar calendar

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Center of Mesopotamian civilization for nearly 2 millenia

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Babylonian civilization

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24
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Bav-il or bav-ilin means

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Gates of the god

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25
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Directed the excavation of Babylon

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Robert Koldewey (1899)

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A temple that is believed to have inspired the Tower of Babel and Nabuchadnezzar’s palaces

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Temple of Etemenanki

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A basement discovered with 14 large rooms with stone at church ceilings and believed to be the gift of Nebuchadnezzar to his wife, Amytis

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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An age where they excel in agriculture, engineering, textile production, and medicine

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Africans

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29
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Hunting and defense

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Metallurgy

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30
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Vutha or uta

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Bow

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31
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Matlhari or miseve

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Arrows

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32
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Mukhang or banga

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Knives

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33
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Xihloka or demo

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Axes

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34
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Dug pits lines with poison-tipped snakes

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Goji or hunza

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35
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Africa’s most famous civilization wc was born along Nile river

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Ancient Egypt

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36
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Land known as ‘Kemet’ which means

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Black Land

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37
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Irrigation tool composed of a pole a bucket used to lift water

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Shadoof

38
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20 meter high statue made up of limestone, lions body and human head

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The Great Sphinx of Giza

39
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Tombs for Kings and Queens of Egypt

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Pyramids

40
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Preservation of body of the dead to be recognized by the soul

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Mummification

41
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Pharoah of the 3rd dynasty of the old kingdom-buikt instructions during his reign

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Djoser

42
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Designed by Djoser’s architect and physician named Imhotep

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Step Pyramid

43
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Kings wherein the pyramids were built

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Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure

44
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  • Material made from the pitch of the papyrus plant that is similar to paper used as writing surface
  • also used for making mats, baskets, rafts, ropes and etc.
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Papyrus

45
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Cosmetic inventions of Ancient Egypt

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Wigs, make-ups

46
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Write texts describing more than 200 disease

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Imhotep

47
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  • Ancient civilization located in present-day Pakistan and Northwest India
    *Bronze Age civilization
  • Largest of the 4 urban civilizations
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Indus Valley Civilization

48
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The Four urban civilization

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Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia, and China

49
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4,600 year old city unearth by archeologists in the 1920s

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Mohenjo Daro

50
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  • A civilization that introduced new techniques of metallurgy and handicraft
  • well-organized and baked brick houses
  • clusters of non-residential buildings
  • complex drainage system
  • sophisticated water storage systems
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Indus Valley Civilization

51
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One of the oldest and longest lasting civilizations of the world

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Ancient China

52
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Derived from Sanskrit, Vina from the name of the Qin Dynasty which means

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“Chin”

53
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Greek Romans called China what?
It means “the land where the silk comes from

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Seres

54
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1000-500bc, used for counting and basic and complex math operations

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Abacus

55
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Practice of relieving pain, healing illness, by inserting several metal needles

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Acupuncture

56
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960AD, production of printed works

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Movable printing press

57
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Type of ceramic claypottery used to craft vases, plates, etc

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Porcelain

58
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Cultivation and production of silk

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Silk and sericulture

59
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142AD, fireworks, used in Mongol wars and European domination of China(1800)

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Gunpowder

60
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Techne other term

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Practice

61
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Engineers who ask the question “why”

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Theoretical Engineer

62
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Scientists who solve tangible procedural problems

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Applied scientists

63
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Ancient Greece after Greek dark ages

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Aegean Civilization

64
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Greek term which means Greece

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Hellas or Ellada

65
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Primary source of income in Aegean civilization

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Commercial sea trading

66
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Most renowned contribution of the Greeks to western civilization

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Greek philosophy

67
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Philosophers who questioned human existence and how the world came to be

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Aristotle, Socrates, Plato

68
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Phytagoras wc is used to measure distance and space,
Number is the only objective concept in the understanding of reality

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Phytagorean Theorem

69
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He is popular for precise prediction of the solar eclipse on May 28,585bc, calculation if the height of the pyramids, founder is Milesian School

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Thales of Miletus

70
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Father of Western Medicine
Correlation if diet and lifestyel

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Hippocrates

71
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A source of energy (Water mills)

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Perachora wheel

72
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Use for water management in Samos and Athens

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Aqueducts

73
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Water clock or clepsydra

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Ctesibius

74
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Measures distance covered by a vehicle

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Odometer

75
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A small town that grew greater and stronger because of trade
Borrowed and enriched culture of Greece
*civil and military engineering

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Ancient Rome

76
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First to describe and diagnose symptom of different diseases and corresponding

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Galen

77
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An aqueduct built by Appius Claudius Caecus

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Aqua Appia

78
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Who built Aqua Appia?

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Appius Claudius Caecus

79
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Historical Region and cultural are in North America that spans territoriesfrom Mexico to Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador

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Mesoamerica

80
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Earliest known civilization in Northeast part of Mexico

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Olmec Civilization

81
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One of the most scientifically advanced individuals in Mesoamerica

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Maya Civilization

82
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System if writing with 1000 characters of Maya Civilization
* burned by Spaniards because considered Pagan literature

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Maya Hieroglyphics

83
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Texts written in tree barks containing the records of the Maya culture, rituals, and scientific observations

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Codices

84
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Salvaged text containing accurate predictions of solar eclipse

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Dresden Codex

85
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Calendar that measured days by cycles or sets

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Long count

86
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They thrived in the capital city of Tenochtitlan

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Aztecs

87
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Present day Mexico

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Tenochtitlan

88
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Artificial Islands or

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Chinampas

89
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Modern variation if today’s language

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Nahuatl

90
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Largest Mesoamerica civilization

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Incan empire

91
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Inca’s official language spoken until today

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Quechua

92
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Set if strings used for recording information such as tax records, census records and calendar information

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Quipi

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