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Aztec Empire
Imperial alliance of Nahua city states located in central Mexico during the 15th-16th centuries
Aztecs
Ethnic group of central Mexico and its civilization
Chimor
Political grouping of the Chimú culture in early Peru
Inca Empire
Empire in pre-Columbian America
Marajoara culture
Indigenous Amazon-river society
Mississippian culture
Native American culture in the US
Moche culture
Culture that flourished 100 to 700 AD in Peru
Mogollon culture
Prehistoric culture of the southwest United States and northern Mexico
Muisca Confederation
Loose confederation of different Muisca rulers (zaques, zipas, iraca and tundama) in the central Andean highlands of present-day Colombia before the Spanish conquest of northern South America
Norse colonization of North America
Viking settlement begun in the 10th century
Pre-Columbian era
The Americas prior to European influences
Purépecha Empire
State in present-day central Mexico (c. 1300-1530)
Tiwanaku polity
Pre-Columbian polity based in the city of Tiwanaku in western Bolivia that extended around Lake Titicaca and Peru from 600 - 1000
Toltec Empire
Mesoamerican empire
Wari culture
Middle Horizon (Pre-Inca Culture) civilization that flourished in the south-central Andes and coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about AD 500 to 1000