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| a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. |
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| the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions. |
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| a people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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| in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. |
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| is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca |
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| a system of calendarsused in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. |
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| a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. |
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| an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of people who lived there. |
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| structure from units of society that existed long before the Aztec empire was founded. |
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| a member of a group of peoples native to southern Mexico and Central America, including the Aztecs. |
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| was a natural lake formation within the Valley of Mexico. The Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in the lake. The Spaniards built Mexico City over Tenochtitlan. |
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