Ancient Americas Vocab 8

6. a major mountain range of South America where the Incan Empire was located
9. a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples
11. a traditional Japanese gate symbolically marking the transition from the mundane to the sacred
12. a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest
14. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena

1. a tiered tower with multiple eaves often used as a Buddhist temple or memorial
2. the capital city of the Incan Empire located in the Andes Mountains of modern-day Peru
3. a member of an indigenous people of Yucatán and adjacent areas and their ancient civilization
4. an ancient Inca device for recording information consisting of variously colored threads
5. a narrow strip of land with sea on either side forming a link between two larger areas
7. the capital city of the Aztec Empire built on an island in Lake Texcoco
8. a Japanese religion incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits
10. a method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces
13. Mesoamerican agriculture which used small rectangular areas of fertile land on shallow lake beds