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- 4. A city in South Peru and was the capital of Inca.
- 5. A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
- 7. A form of decorative gateway or portal, consisting of two upright wooden posts connected at the top by two horizontal crosspieces, commonly found at the entrance to Shinto shrines.
- 9. A member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- 10. A member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521.
- 11. Of or relating to the Maya, their culture, or their languages.
- 12. 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.
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- 1. The capital of the Aztec empire: founded in 1325; destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521; now the site of Mexico City.
- 2. A device consisting of a cord with knotted strings of various colors attached, used by the ancient Peruvians for recording events, keeping accounts, etc.
- 3. In India, Myanmar (Burma), China, etc., a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having upward-curving roofs over the individual stories.
- 6. Also Shintoism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.
- 8. Farming The process of statistically adjusting a person's test score based on the performances of others in the same racial or ethnic group.
- 10. The belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls.
- 13. Mountains A mountain range in NW Africa, extending through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Highest peak, Mt. Tizi, 14,764 feet (4,500 meters)