Meso-American Vocab Review

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Movement to establish a new permanent settlement

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Migration

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Record-keeping tool made of knotted string

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Quipu

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A Civilization is

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the society, culture, and way of life in a region.

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Narrow water passage between Russia and Alaska, believed to be the route humans took from Asia to the Americas.

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Bering Strait

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Period of consistently freezing temps in North America and globally

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Ice Age

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First civilization in the Americas with large stone heads near the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Olmec

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Civilization in modern Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and southern Mexico known for a 365-day calendar.

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The Maya

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City State:

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A political unit with a city and surrounding area.

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Capital and religious center of the Aztecs

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Tenochtitlán

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Group in southern Arizona 2,000 years ago, surviving in the desert with irrigation.

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Hohokam