Learning Contract #8 - History Vocab

6. The world's longest range of mountains and runs north to south along the Pacific Ring of Fire and seven countries from Venezuela to Chile
9. The largest empire in pre-Columbian America
11. A gate found at the entrance of Shinto shrines
12. Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century
14. The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence

1. The multi-tiered Japanese structure that is a prominent secondary feature of Japanese temples and gardens
2. The religious and administrative capital of the Inca Empire which flourished in ancient Peru
3. Ancestors who built an ancient civilization that stretched across much of Central America
4. Usually consisted of colored, spun and plied thread or strings from llama hair
5. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and separates two bodies of water
7. Ancient capital of the Aztec empire
8. Oldest religion in Japan
10. Creates steps or terraces into mountains or hillsides to create arable land
13. A long and narrow floating field on a shallow lake bed, artificially built up by layering soil, sediment, and decaying vegetation and used, especially by the Aztecs, to grow crops