Americas Vocab

2. A symbol that stands for a word, idea, or sound.
5. A channel that moves water over a long distance.
7. system An Incan system for payment of taxes with labor instead of money.
9. A long period of extremely dry weather.
10. agriculture A farming method in which trees and other plants on a plot of land are cut down and burned. Then the ash is used for fertilizer.
14. A strip of level land cut into a slope that is planted with crops.
15. In Incan society, a group of related families that combined its resources to meet people’s needs.
16. A name for the combined area of land of the continents Europe and Asia.

1. A system for ranking members of a group according to their importance.
3. An artificial (fake) island built by the Aztecs. Usually used for farming.
4. A Inca record-keeping device made of knotted strings.
6. A colorful tropical bird.
8. A mountain range that runs along the western edge of South America.
11. monarch A ruler with complete power over the government and the lives of the people.
12. A wall to hold back water from flooding an area.
13. A bowl-shaped area.