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| an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900, an important center of Mayan civilization, situated in Petén in the jungles of northern Guatemala and the site of significant archaeological discoveries in the late 1950s and early 1960s. |
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| a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times. |
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| a pictograph or hieroglyph. |
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| sacred book of the Quiché. |
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| a volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark but transparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture. |
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| the alliance (1882–1915) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. |
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| a god of the Aztecs and Toltecs, represented as a feathered serpent |
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| c1470–1520, last Aztec emperor of Mexico 1502–20. |
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| was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cusco, which he transformed into the empire Tawantinsuyu. |
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| were the basic political unit of pre-Inca and Inca life. |
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| a form of public service during the Inca Empire |
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| were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region. |
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