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Incan Empire
The ________ was still flourishing when the first Spanish expeditions arrived in the central Andes.
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.
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.
Maya
The ________ created a sophisticated writing system based on hieroglyphs, or pictures.
Inca
The ________ had no writing system but instead kept records using a system of knotted strings called the quipu.
Francisco Pizarro
In 1531, ________ and a small band of about 180 men landed on the Pacific coast of South America.
Buffalo
The ________ served many uses for Plains peoples.
Spanish force
In 1519, a(n) ________ under the command of Hernán Cortés landed at Veracruz, on the Gulf of Mexico.
Aztec religion
________ was based on a belief in an unending struggle between the forces of good and evil throughout the universe.
Moche
________ was the capital of a powerful state.
Human sacrifice
In an effort to postpone the day of reckoning, the Aztec practiced ________.
Cortés
When ________ arrived at Tenochtitlán, he received a friendly welcome from the Aztec monarch Montezuma (also spelled Moctezuma)
Mexico City
Located near ________ in a fertile valley, Teoti- huacán had as many as 200, 000 inhabitants at its height.
Central pyramid
Mayan cities were built around a(n) ________ topped by a shrine to the gods.
Machu Picchu
________, elevation 8, 000 feet (2, 400 m), was built on a lofty hilltop surrounded by mountain peaks far above the Urubamba River.
upper Yucatán Peninsula
They controlled the ________ from another capital at Chichén Itzá for several centuries, beginning around A.D. 900.
North America
________ is a large continent with varying climates and geographical features.
Oldest major city
Caral has been identified as the ________ in the Americas.
