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A member of the indigenous people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.
Is a watercourse to move water from a source to a distribution point. For example, pipes.
They were invented by the Aztecs and are sometimes known as floating gardens. They’re artificial islands that were created by interweaving reeds with stakes beneath the lake's surface.
An artifact is something made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially a object of archaeological intrest.
Is a collection of internationally known standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations relating to foods.
A school for the sons of the Aztec nobility. They would receive military-like training and religious training.
In pre columbian Aztec society a calpulli was the designation of an organizational unit below the level of the altepetl.
Is the person whose job is to go and search for new land.
A widespread disease which is contagious.
Evaluation of other cultures according to their traditions and standards.
A grant by the spanish crown to a colonist in America Conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
A system of organization in which people or groups ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
A collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
An event regarded as a portent of good or evil.
The belief in or worship of more than one good.
The unit of monetary currency in Guatemala Is the quetzal.
A school for the children of the Aztec society.
Was a large Mexica altepetl in what is now the center of Mexico.
Authenticated at Setubal, Portugal divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguesse Empire and the Spanish Empire.
A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced the transfer of dood, cloth, and other goods.
Was established in 1478 by Calothic Monarchs Ferdinand ll of Aragon and Isabella l of Castile.
The series of military campaigns by which cristian armies reclaimed control of the lberian Peninsula from the Moors, starting in the 8th century.

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