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| 11322269342 | Aztecs | The Mexica; one of the nomadic tribes that penetrated into the sedentary zone of the Mesoamerican plateau after the fall of the Toltecs; established empire after 1325 around shores of Lake Texcoco. | 0 | |
| 11322269343 | Ayllus | Households in Andean societies that recognized some form of kinships and traced descent from some common, and sometimes mythical ancestors. | 1 | |
| 11322269344 | Calpulli | Clans in Aztec society, later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors. | 2 | |
| 11322269345 | Cannibal Kingdom | The modern interpretation of Aztec society created by Marvin Harris. | 3 | |
| 11322269346 | Chichen Itza | Ruins built in the Yucatan. It used to be a temple. | 4 | |
| 11322269347 | Chinampas | Beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to create "floating island"; system of irrigated agriculture utilized by Aztecs. | 5 | |
| 11322269348 | Flowery Death | Death while taking prisoners for the sacrificial knife. | 6 | |
| 11322269349 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god. | 7 | |
| 11322269350 | Indians | Misnomer created by Columbus referring to indigenous people of New World; implies social and ethnic commonality among Native Americans that did not exist; still used to apply to Native American. | 8 | |
| 11322269351 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential part of Inca imperial control. | 9 | |
| 11322269352 | Nahuatl | Toltec language that the Aztecs also spoke and may have aided their rapid rise to power possible. | 10 | |
| 11322269353 | Pachacuti | Ruler of Inca Soceity from 1438 to 1471; launched a series of military campians that gave Incas controls of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca. | 11 | |
| 11322269354 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items. | 12 | |
| 11322269355 | Quetzalcoatl | Toltec deity; Feathered Serpent; adopted by Aztecs as a major god. | 13 | |
| 11322269356 | Split inheritance | Inca practice of descent; all titles and political power went to successor; but wealth and land remained in hand of male descendants for support of cult of dead Inca's mummy. | 14 | |
| 11322269357 | 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. | 15 | |
| 11322269358 | Inca Socialism | A view created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia; image of the Inca Empire as a carfully organized system in which every community collectively contributed to the whole. | 16 | |
| 11322269359 | Temple of the Sun | Inca religious center located at Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas. | 17 | |
| 11322269360 | Tenochtitlan | Founded c. 1325 on marshy island in Lake Texcoco; became enter of Aztec power; joined with Tlacopan and Texcoco in1434 to form a triple alliance that controlled most of central plateau of Mesoamerica. | 18 | |
| 11322269361 | Tlaloc | Major god of Aztecs; associated with fertility and the agricultural; god of rain. | 19 | |
| 11322269362 | Toltecs | Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of sedentary agriculture in Mesoamerica; established capital at Tula after migration into central Mesoamerican plateau; strongly militaristic ethic, including cult of human sacrifice. | 20 | |
| 11322269363 | Topiltzin | Religious leader and reformer of the Toltecs in 10th century; dedicated to god Quetzalcoatl; after losing struggle for power, went into exile in the Yucatan peninsula. | 21 | |
| 11322269364 | Topac Yupanqui | Inca ruler (1471-1493); extended his father's conquests; seized the northern coastal kingdom of Chimor and pushed into Equador. | 22 | |
| 11322269365 | Twantinsuyu | Word for Inca Empire; region from present-day Colombia to Chile and eastward to northern Argentina, | 23 | |
| 11322269366 | Yanas | A class of people within Inca society removed from their ayllus to serve permentantly as servants, artisans, or workers for the inca or the Inca nobility. | 24 |
