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What is deforestation?
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A smaller water source that pours into a larger body of water such as a river or an ocean.
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What is a tributary?
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The basic unit of the Maya writing system. Each part represented a word or symbol.
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Aztec: 100
Men would do this in order to maintain a powerful empire and to honor Huitzilopochtli.
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Aztec: 100
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Aztec: 200
This Spanish conquistador allowed the Aztecs to believe that he was a god in order to gain their trust and overtake them.
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Aztec: 200
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Aztec: 300
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Aztec: 300
The Aztecs would take the mud from the marshes and shovel it into fenced in barriers typically connected at four corners to trees. This would create a floating garden on which to grow crops.
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Aztec: 400
He was the leader of the Aztecs when the Aztecs were overtaken.
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Aztec: 400
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Inca: 100
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Inca: 100
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Inca: 200
Messages had to be carried on foot by runners on an extensive road system because the Inca did not have this.
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Inca: 200
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Inca: 300
The conquistador who conquered the Inca empire and established, Lima, the capital of Peru.
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Inca: 300
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Inca: 400
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Inca: 400
The Inca built terraces into the mountainside and irrigation canals in the desert lands.
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Maya: 100
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Maya: 100
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Maya: 200
One of these keeps track of sacred days, another the movement of the sun, and yet another how much time has passed since a fixed starting point.
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Maya: 200
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Maya: 300
The Maya would not plant in a particlar field every few years in order to allow for what?
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Maya: 300
They would allow the field to rest in order to regain its nutrients.
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Maya: 400
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Maya: 400
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What is El Nino?
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The structures that make up the two types of islands in the Caribbean.
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