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Please help! I accidentally deleted 3 days worth of work! Please find the definitions! I cant find them online!

cacao

highland

lowland

maize

motherculture

slash-and-burnagriculture

terrace

Mesoamerica

MonteAlbán

Olmec

YucatánPeninsula

Zapotec











codex

creationstory

glyph

ElMirador

Maya

PopolVuh




KEYVOCABULARY


NAMES&PLACES

chinampa

communal

conquistador

noble

serf

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cacao-seeds from a small tropical American evergreen tree, from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made.

highland -an area of high or mountainous land.

lowland -low-lying country.

maize -a Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn.

motherculture-a term for an earlier people's culture that has great and widespread influence on some later cultures and people.

slash-and-burnagriculture- a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

terrace -a level paved area or platform next to a building; a patio or veranda.

Mesoamerica -a historical region and cultural area in North America.

MonteAlbán -a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Olmec -a member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico (c.1200–400 bc), who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization.

YucatánPeninsula -a peninsula in southeastern Mexico, lying between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Zapotec -a member of an indigenous people living in and around Oaxaca in southern Mexico.

codex -an ancient manuscript text in book form.

creationstory -A story describing or explaining the creation of the world.

glyph -a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.

ElMirador -a turret, window, or balcony designed to command an extensive outlook

Maya -the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions.

PopolVuh -a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people, one of the Maya peoples, who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands northwest of present-day Guatemala City.

KEYVOCABULARY:

chinampa -Chinampa is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico.

communal -shared by all members of a community; for common use.

conquistador -a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

noble -belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political status; aristocratic.

serf-an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.

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