6th Social Studies - 4/27/15

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Homework

5/7/15 - MAP OF THE MONTH

4/30/15 - Copy vocabulary words in NB and study words for weekly quiz.

1.  glaciers - a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles

2.  Valley of Mexico - The Valley of Mexico is part of the central highlands and lies at an altitude of about a mile and a half. At the low point of the Valley there is a large lake that made human life sustainable in the generally dry country. Long before the Aztecs came to the Valley of Mexico the land had seen the rise and decline of a number of other tribal groups. One of these groups built the great city of Teotihuacán. From Teotihuacán its people built an empire.

3.  chinampas - a method 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.

4.  Pachakuti - Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui was the ninth Incan emperor who ruled from 1438 to 1471. He is best known for transforming the Incas from a tiny little kingdom to a powerful empire the size of the east coast of the USA. He is the first Incan ruler that historians can actually confirm existed. He is widely regarded as the greatest Incan emperor for his conquests, social reforms, and civic planning.

5.  Tenochtitlan - Tenochtitlán, located on an island near the western shore of LakeTexcoco in central Mexico, was the capital city and religious centre of the Aztec civilization.