Mesoamerica Vocabulary

2. A floating garden on which Aztecs built gardens.
4. A symbolic picture-especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone.
6. A structure of earth and rock, built to prevent flood waters.
9. Money paid by one culture to another in return for protection.
10. Hand-lettered book of glyphs, or other writings, that contains a records like religion, stars, and learning.
11. Mesoamerican civilization known for its fully developed written language of hieroglyphs and developed the concept of zero
12. The earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica.
15. An area within 1600 miles on both sides of the equator, that receives direct or nearly direct sunlight year round.
16. A natural depression on land that holds water.
17. A wedge shaped piercing object usually at the end of an arrow.
18. A belief in many gods.

1. An ancient Inca device used for recording information using threaded knots.
2. A group of mountain ranges that run parallel to each other
3. A belief in many gods.
5. A system of farming in which thick forestlands are cut and burned to prepare the soil for planting.
7. Flat areas built on the slopes of hills and mountains for farming.
8. A Spanish conqueror.
9. The areas north and south of the Tropical Zone, where climate varies with the season.
13. Mesoamerican civilization in and near the Andes Mountains with a system of roads of over 10,000 miles.
14. Mesoamerican society known for advanced agriculture using chinampa and known for their polytheistic religion and brutal human sacrifices