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  1. 1. a member of a former confederacy of six North American peoples (Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora) who lived mainly in southern Ontario and Quebec and northern New York State.
  2. 4. forced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru.
  3. 8. a foundational sacred narrative of the Kʼicheʼ people from long before the Spanish conquest of the Maya
  4. 10. was the ninth Emperor of the Aztec Empire
  5. 12. an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.
  6. 13. a union or association between three powers or states, in particular that made in 1668 between England, the Netherlands, and Sweden against France, and that in 1882 between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy against France and Russia.
  7. 16. the Feathered Serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon.
  8. 18. a member of an ancient North American people of the southwestern US, who flourished between c. 200 BC and AD 1500. The earliest phase of their culture is known as the Basket Maker period; the present-day Pueblo culture developed from a later stage.
  9. 20. a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.
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  1. 2. a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.
  2. 3. a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe
  3. 5. person or thing regarded as being symbolic or representative of a particular quality or concept.
  4. 6. a member of any of various North American peoples, including the Hopi, occupying pueblo settlements chiefly in New Mexico and Arizona. Their prehistoric period is known as the Anasazi culture.
  5. 7. the ninth Sapa Inca
  6. 9. a hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization.
  7. 11. a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States
  8. 14. an ancient manuscript text in book form.
  9. 15. among North American Indian peoples of the northwest coast) an opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.
  10. 17. an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900
  11. 19. a sib or clan that constituted the basic socioeconomic unit of Inca society.