Mesoamerica Vocab

The region extending from modern Mexico through Central America

• Mesoamerica

• Glyph

• Social Pyramid

• Ayllu

a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops

• Slash and Burn Agriculture

• Sown to Grow

• Organic Farming

• Mesoamerica

a social structure in the shape of a pyramid, with layers representing social classes of different rank

• Mesoamerica

• Maya

• Social Pyramid

• Ayllu

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

• Ayllu

• Chinampa

• Mesoamerica

• Steles

shared by a community or group

• Ayllu

• Communal

• Social Pyramid

• Glyph

a regional variety of a language

• Ayllu

• Chinampa

• Dialect

• Communal

a symbol for a word, idea, or sound in a hieroglyphic system of writing

• Ayllu

• Glyph

• Steles

• Mesoamerica

a vertical stone slab or pillar with carvings or inscriptions

• Ayllu

• Chinampa

• Chasquis

• Stele

A Mesoamerican agricultural technique where small artificial islands used to grow crops.

• Ayllu

• Chinampa

• Chasquis

• Stele

Original name of what we now call the Aztec civilization.

• Aztecs

• Mexica

• Maya

• Inca