The Chinamitas or Tulumkis (Nahuatl chinamitl, Mopan tulumki) were likely a Mopan Maya people who constituted the former Chinamita Territory, an early Columbian polity of the Maya Lowlands, likely in present-day Belize and Guatemala. In the early...
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu pronounced [taˈwantiŋ ˈsuju], lit. 'land of four parts'), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of...
The Aleutian Islands ( ə-LOO-shən or ə-LEW-shən), also called the Aleut Islands, or Aleutic Islands, are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones. Most of the islands belong to the U.S. state of Alaska, with the...
Maya ( MY-ə, Spanish: [ˈmaʝa]) are an ethnolinguistic group of Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica. Maya peoples are generally descended from the same populations that inhabited the region during the ancient Maya civilization. Today, they primarily...
Miꞌkmaꞌki, also spelled Miꞌgmaꞌgi, is composed of the traditional and current territories, or country, of the Miꞌkmaq people, located in Wabanakia, or the Dawnland region, along the north east coast of North America (or Turtle Island). Portions...
Comancheria (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land'; Spanish: Comanchería), also known as the Comanche Empire, was a large Comanche polity covering modern New Mexico, West Texas, and nearby areas that was occupied by the Comanche before the...
La Huasteca (Nahuatl languages: Cuextecapan) is a geographical and cultural region located partially along the Gulf of Mexico and including parts of the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí. It is roughly defined as the area...
The Wari Empire or Huari Empire was a political formation that emerged in around 600 CE in Peru's Ayacucho Basin and grew to cover much of coastal and highland Peru. The empire lasted for about 500 years, until 1100 CE. It existed during the same...
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau is a plateau in west-central South America. Located at the latitude of the widest part of the north–south-trending Andes,...
The Mosquito Coast (also known as Mosquitia or Mosquito Shore) is an area along the coast of eastern Nicaragua and southeastern Honduras. It was named after the local Miskito nation and was long dominated by British interests and known as the...
