Vocab #8

4. A narrow strip of land with sea on either side, connecting two larger pieces of land.
5. A member of the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
6. The capital of the Aztec Empire
8. The gateway of a Shinto shrine with two uprights and two cross pieces.
9. A large group of languages spoken in Central America and Mexico. The chief members are Maya , Quiche, and Tzeltal.
10. A Hindu or Buddhist temple. Usually a many tiered tower in India and East Asia.
12. Artificial agricultural islands built with rafts, mud, and soil to support farming.
13. Mountains A mountain range that stretches along the Western coast of South America.

1. An ancient Inca device used to record information by using colored threads that are knotted together.
2. A Japanese religion from the 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and natural spirits and and a belief in sacred power in living/ nonliving things
3. A Peruvian city that was the capital for the Inca empire.
5. The belief that inanimate objects in the universe have spirits.
7. Farming A method of growing crops on sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces built into the slope.
11. A member of the Quechuan people that lived in the Cuzco valley in Peru.