Vocabulary2 Flashcards
1.meso. América
Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.
2.glyph
a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.
“flanges painted with esoteric glyphs”
ARCHITECTURE
an ornamental carved groove or channel, as on a Greek frieze.
3.olmec
1.
a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico ( circa 1200–400 BC), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.
2.
a people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries.
4.aztec
a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
2.
the extinct language of the Aztecs, a Uto-Aztecan language from which modern Nahuatl is descended.
5.hernan cortes
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation: [erˈnaŋ korˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of …
6.montezuma
Montezuma was emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest. Montezuma tried to appease the Spanish but failed and was captured by them and deposed. During the ensuing Aztec revolt he was either killed by his own people or murdered by the Spanish.
7:Yucatán peninsula
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8:Tikal
Tikal (/tiˈkäl/) (Tik’al in modern Mayan orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, reported the ruins to La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal.
9:Chichen-Itzá
Chichén Itzá is a world-famous complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. A massive step pyramid known as El Castillo dominates the 6.5-sq.-km. ancient city, which thrived from around 600 A.D. to the 1200s. Graphic stone carvings survive at structures like the ball court, Temple of the Warriors and the Wall
10.lake texcoc
Lake Texcoco was a natural lake within the Anáhuac or Valley of Mexico. Lake Texcoco is most well known as where the Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan, which was located on an island within the lake.
11.chinampa
Chinampa (Nahuatl: chināmitl [tʃiˈnaːmitɬ]) is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.
12.quipu
an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
13.chavin
vin. or Cha·vín (chä-vēn′) n. An early pre-Incan civilization that flourished in northern and central Peru from about 900 to 200 bc, known for its carved stone sculptures and boldly designed ceramics. [After Chavín de Huántar.]
14.inca
a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches.
15.andes
Andes. /ˈændiːz/ plural noun. 1. a major mountain system of South America, extending for about 7250 km (4500 miles) along the entire W coast, with several parallel ranges or cordilleras and many volcanic peaks: rich in minerals, including gold, silver, copper, iron ore, and nitrates.
