Chapter 11: The Americas

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Incan Empire

The ________ was still flourishing when the first Spanish expeditions arrived in the central Andes.

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narwhal tusk

With a variety of harpoons and spears made from antler or ________, the Inuit became skilled at hunting seal, caribou, and fish, which provided them with both food and clothing.

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Cahokia

At the site of ________, near the modern city of East St. Louis, Illinois, archaeologists found a burial mound over 98 feet (30 m) high with a base larger than that of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

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Maya

The ________ created a sophisticated writing system based on hieroglyphs, or pictures.

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Inca

The ________ had no writing system but instead kept records using a system of knotted strings called the quipu.

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Francisco Pizarro

In 1531, ________ and a small band of about 180 men landed on the Pacific coast of South America.

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Buffalo

The ________ served many uses for Plains peoples.

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Spanish force

In 1519, a(n) ________ under the command of Hernán Cortés landed at Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico.

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Aztec religion

________ was based on a belief in an unending struggle between the forces of good and evil throughout the universe.

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Moche

________ was the capital of a powerful state.

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Human sacrifice

In an effort to postpone the day of reckoning, the Aztec practiced ________.

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Cortés

When ________ arrived at Tenochtitlán, he received a friendly welcome from the Aztec monarch Montezuma (also spelled Moctezuma)

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Mexico City

Located near ________ in a fertile valley, Teoti- huacán had as many as 200, 000 inhabitants at its height.

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Central pyramid

Mayan cities were built around a(n) ________ topped by a shrine to the gods.

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Machu Picchu

________, elevation 8, 000 feet (2, 400 m), was built on a lofty hilltop surrounded by mountain peaks far above the Urubamba River.

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upper Yucatán Peninsula

They controlled the ________ from another capital at Chichén Itzá for several centuries, beginning around A.D. 900.

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North America

________ is a large continent with varying climates and geographical features.

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Oldest major city

Caral has been identified as the ________ in the Americas.

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