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You should be familiar with the following terms as well as terms from Chapter 1:
- pre-modern
- constellations
- Sumerian
- Greek (ancient)
- International Astronomical Union (IAU)
- asterism
- north celestial pole
- south celestial pole
- circumpolar
- sidereal day
- solar day
- ecliptic
- latitude
- longitude
- horizon
- North Pole
- equator
- Tropic of Cancer
- Tropic of Capricorn
- arctic circle
- antarctic circle
- winter solstice
- summer solstice
- vernal equinox
- autumnal equinox
- phases of the Moon
- new moon
- waxing crescent moon
- first quarter moon
- waxing gibbous moon
- full moon
- waning gibbous moon
- third quarter moon
- waning crescent moon
- eclipse
- wandering stars
- retrograde
- zodiac
- superior planet
- inferior planet
- meridian
- zenith
- comet
- meteor
- meteor shower
- fireball (bolide)
- nova
- supernova
- Milky Way
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- archaeoastronomy
- cosmology
- First Peoples
- Skidi Pawnee
- Ancestral Puebloan Peoples
- Chaco Canyon
- sun daggers
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- World Heritage Site
- Mesoamerica
- base-10 number system
- base-20 number system
- Olmec
- Maya
- Aztec
- long count calendar
- Dresden Codex
- Haab’ (vague year)
- Tzolk’in calendar
- Calendar Round
- synodic month
- sidereal month
- heliacal rising
- saros cycle
- Quetzalcóatl (Kukulkán)
- Teotikhuacán
- Chichén Itzá
- Stonehenge
- Great Pyramid at Giza
- Osiris
- Isis
- sunspot
- prominence