Chapter 9- Ancient America

6. an area of dense jungle in southeastern Mexico, extending into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
7. a region that extends southeastward from central Mexico and includes the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, and parts of Honduras and Nicaragua
10. having a warm and rainy climate
12. a symbol, usually carved or engraved, that represents a syllable or a whole word
13. an ancient culture that inhabited what is now the northern coast of Peru between A.D. 100 and 700
14. relating to a type of agriculture in which patches of land are prepared for planting by cutting down and burning the natural vegetation
16. a culture that flourished between 900 and 200 B.C. in the Andes of Peru
17. a culture that shapes and influences the customs and ideas of later cultures

1. an underground layer of sand, gravel, or spongy rock that contains water
2. a carved stone slab set upright in the ground, usually commemorating a person or event
3. a type of corn grown by Native American civilizations
4. a civilization of present-day southern Mexico and northern Central America, which reached its height from A.D. 250 to 900
5. a woven or knitted cloth
8. a narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses
9. an ancient culture that arose near what is now the southern coast of Peru and prospered from 200 B.C. to A.D. 600
11. the earliest known Meso-American culture, which flourished from 1200 to 400 B.C. and was centered along the Gulf Coast of what is now southern Mexico
15. a book or the type used by early Meso-American civilizations to record important historical events