Vocab 8

2. multi-tiered structures typically associated with Buddhist temples
3. a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
6. refers to anything relating to the Incas, their culture, or the Inca Empire
8. a system of knotted strings used by ancient Andean cultures, particularly the Incas, to record information, especially numerical data, without a written language
9. a Mesoamerican civilization that dominated much of central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
11. refers to the Maya people, their culture and language, and the ancient civilization they created in Mesoamerica
12. artificial islands, or "floating gardens," developed by the Aztecs for farming on shallow lakes and marshes
13. a traditional Japanese gate most commonly found at the entrance of or within a Shinto shrine

1. the longest continental mountain range on Earth, stretching along the western edge of South America
4. a method of cultivating crops on land that is not flat, by creating level platforms or "terraces" on sloped terrain
5. the indigenous religion of Japan, often described as the "way of the gods."
7. a city in southeastern Peru, the former capital of the Inca Empire
9. the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
10. capital city of the Aztec Empire