Chapter 11 Vocab/ Key Terms
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| 7663879161 | Indian | Misnomer created by Columbus referring to indigenous peoples of New World; implies social and ethic commonalities among Native Americans that did not exist (still around today) | 0 | |
| 7663879162 | Toltecs | Succeeded Teotihuancan culture in central Mexico; militaristic ethic (human sacrafice); influenced large territoy after 1000 bc and died down 1200 bc | 1 | |
| 7663896058 | Topiltzin | religious leader and reformer, dedicated to god Quetzalcoatl | 2 | |
| 7663907667 | Quetzalcoatl | Toltec deity; Feathered Serpent; adopted by Aztecs as a major god | 3 | |
| 7663879164 | Tenochtitlan | Founded c1325 on marshy island in Lake Texcoco; center of Aztec power; part of Triple Alliance in 1434 to control most of central plateau in Mesoamerics | 4 | |
| 7663918704 | Tlaloc | Major god of Aztecs; associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle; god of rain | 5 | |
| 7663879165 | Huitcilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; old man god | 6 | |
| 7663931947 | Nezhualcoyotl | leading Aztec king of the 15th century | 7 | |
| 7663879166 | Calpulli | clans in Aztec society, later expanded to residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 8 | |
| 7663879167 | Chinampas | bed of aquatic weeds, muds, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to created "floating islands"; irrigated agriculture utilized by Aztecs | 9 | |
| 7663879168 | Pochteca | merchant class of Aztec society, long distance trade in luxury items | 10 | |
| 7663879170 | Twantinsuyu | Word of Inca Empire, region of present day Columbia to Chile and eastword to northern Argentina | 11 | |
| 7663879171 | Inca | a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. | 12 | |
| 7663879169 | Inca socialism | View created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia; image of Inca Empire as a carefully organized system in which every community collectively contributed to the whole | 13 | |
| 7663879172 | Pachacuti | Ruler of Inca society 1438-1471; launched series of military campaigns that gave Incas control of region Cuzco to shores of Lake Titicaca | 14 | |
| 7663879175 | Split inheritance | Inca practice of descent; all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants fpr support of cult of dead inca's mummy | 15 | |
| 7663879176 | Temple of the Sun | Inca religious center located in Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas. | 16 | |
| 7663967875 | Huacas | Sacred spirits and powers that resided or appeared in caves, mountain, rocks, river, and other natural phenomena | 17 | |
| 7663879177 | Curacas | a member of the Inca provincial nobility often acting as administrator or ruler over an ayllu or group of ayllus. | 18 | |
| 7663879178 | Tambos | Way stations used by Incas as inns and storehouses; supply centers for Inca armies on move; relay points for system of runners used to carry messages | 19 | |
| 7663975865 | Mita | Forced labor system used in colonial Peru; allowed authorities to draft native workers | 20 | |
| 7663879179 | Quipu | System of knotted strings utilized by Incas in place of a writing system; could contain numerical and other types of info for census and financial records | 21 | |
| 7663879163 | Aztecs | a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521. | 22 | |
| 7663879174 | Huayna Capac | son of Topac; extended the Tawantinsuyu (Inca Empire) significantly to the south into present-day Chile and Argentina and tried to annex territories towards the north, in what is now Ecuador and southern Colombia. | 23 |
