Chapter 14: Pre-Columbian America Review

circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles

• tepee

• Huitzilpochtli

• quipu

• clan

• Moche

Aztec god of war and of the sun

• tepee

• Huitzilpochtli

• quipu

• clan

• Moche

system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records

• tepee

• Huitzilpochtli

• quipu

• clan

• Moche

a group of related families

• tepee

• Huitzilpochtli

• quipu

• clan

• Moche

civilization that appeared around A . D. 300 near the Pacifi c coast

• tepee

• Huitzilpochtli

• quipu

• clan

• Moche

corn grown by many Native American groups

• maize

• Pachacuti

• longhouse

• Machu Picchu

• Valley of Mexico

Inca ruler who launched a campaign of conquest across the Pacific coast

• maize

• Pachacuti

• longhouse

• Machu Picchu

• Valley of Mexico

Iroquois house built of wooden poles, covered with bark, and housing a dozen families

• maize

• Pachacuti

• longhouse

• Machu Picchu

• Valley of Mexico

city built above the Urubamba River on a high hilltop surrounded by mountain peaks

• maize

• Pachacuti

• longhouse

• Machu Picchu

• Valley of Mexico

site settled by the Aztec, from which they spread their empire across much of Mexico

• maize

• Pachacuti

• longhouse

• Machu Picchu

• Valley of Mexico