South America

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  1. 4. After defeating his brother, Atahualpa became very briefly the last Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire before the Spanish conquest ended his reign.
  2. 8. a city in the Peruvian Andes, was once capital of the Inca Empire
  3. 11. The name used for areas of Mexico and Centeral America where ancient empires flourished.
  4. 12. a system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keeping records.
  5. 13. a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  6. 14. ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés
  7. 15. a stone or wooden slab generaly taller than wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.
  8. 18. Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru
  9. 21. 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
  10. 22. the longest contenintal mountains in the world,running along South Americas western side.
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  1. 1. a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egpytian and other writing systems.
  2. 2. a large Mexica altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City.
  3. 3. one of the most sophisticated civilizations in the Americas,which flourised from 300 to 900 A.D.
  4. 5. an artifical channel for conveing water, typically in the form of a bridge across a valley or other gap.
  5. 6. a small communtiy in the area of Cuzco, a city located in the mountains of southern Peru.
  6. 7. the people of spain.
  7. 9. having many gods
  8. 10. swampy islands crisscrossed by canals that provided easy travel to local markets.
  9. 16. make or form sloping land into a number of flat areas resembling steps.
  10. 17. a contenint entirely in the Western Hemisphere, with a relativley small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
  11. 19. flourished from the twelfth century A.D. until the Spanish conquest in the 1500s.
  12. 20. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
  13. 23. an agurcultural method used for clearing forests and farm lands; includes buring