Latin America Vocab

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  1. 3. (n) - pre-Columbian Indians of Central Mexico. The empire in power in Central Mexico when the Spanish arrived.
  2. 5. (n) - A royal city created by the Incan Indians around 1460. It was used for imperial functions, religious ceremonies, astronomical observations, and possibly for defense.
  3. 9. (n) - a Spanish explorer who is famous mainly for his march across Mexico and his conquering of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. He was a conquistador.
  4. 10. (n) - a highly advanced pre-Columbian Indian civilization of Central America that flourished between 400 B.C.E. and 900 C.E.
  5. 12. (n) - a wooly South American camel-like animal that is used to carry heavy loads up mountains.
  6. 14. (adj.) - dry; having little rainfall.
  7. 16. (n) - a type of farming that is used in hilly areas to create patches of land for farming. They keep the soil in place while allowing excess water to drain through natural gravity.
  8. 17. (n) - corn; yellow in color; sometimes called "Indian corn"
  9. 18. (n) - peninsula in Mexico and Guatemala which was the center of the Mayan culture.
  10. 20. (n) - the ancient capital of the Aztecs; now the site of modern-day Mexico City.
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  1. 1. (n) - a narrow strip of land that joins two larger areas of land usually with water on either side of it.
  2. 2. (n) - an Incan memory aid (tool) which involved knotted ropes as a means of communicating.
  3. 4. (n) - grassland region important for grazing in Argentina and Uruguay.
  4. 6. (n) - a leader of the 16th century Spanish soldiers who invaded Latin America in search of riches and status
  5. 7. (n) - a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.
  6. 8. (n) - an area of dense and diverse vegetation with an average of 90 percent humidity and 80 inches of rainfall annually.
  7. 11. (n) - height above sea level.
  8. 13. (n) - the imaginary line that runs around the earth halfway between the North and South poles.
  9. 14. (n) - the largest mountain chain in Latin America, stretching over 4,000 miles from Colombia and Venezuela to the southern tip of South America
  10. 15. (n) - pre-Columbian Indians of the Andes Mountains in South America. This Empire was at its height when the Spanish arrived in the early 1500s.
  11. 19. (n) - a large river and rainforest in South America which runs through Brazil from the Andes Mountains, a distance of over 4,000 miles.