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| 34666305 | Calpulli | Clans in Aztec society; later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 0 | |
| 34666306 | Twantinsuyu | Word for Inca Empire; region from present-day Colombia to Chile and eastward to northern Argentina | 1 | |
| 34666307 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god | 2 | |
| 34666308 | Pachacuti | Ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471; launched a series of military campaigns that gave Inca control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca | 3 | |
| 34666309 | 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 | 4 | |
| 34666310 | Quetzalcoatl | Toltec diety; Feathered Serpent; adopted by Aztecs as a major god | 5 | |
| 34666311 | Tenochtitlan | Founded 1325 on marshy island in Lake Texcoco; became center of Aztec power; joined with Tlacopan and Texcoco in 1434 to form a triple alliance that controlled most of central plateau | 6 | |
| 34666312 | Tambos | Way stations used by Inca as inns and storehouses; supply centers for Inca armies on move; relay points for system of runners used to carry messages | 7 | |
| 34666313 | Inca Socialism | A view created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia; image of the Inca Empire as a carefully organized system in which every community collectively contributed to the whole | 8 | |
| 34666314 | Pochteca | Special Merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | 9 | |
| 34666315 | Chinampas | Beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and Herat placed in frames of cane and rooted in lakes to create "floating islands"; system of irrigated agriculture used by Aztecs | 10 | |
| 34666316 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control | 11 | |
| 34666317 | Quipu | System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system; could contain numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records | 12 | |
| 34666318 | Yanas | A class of people within Inca society removed from their ayllus to serve permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the inca or the Inca nobility | 13 | |
| 34672225 | Amerindian | the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples | 14 | |
| 34672226 | Aztecs | certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries | 15 | |
| 34672227 | Curacas | an official of the Inca Empire, who held the role of magistrate; the curacas were the heads of the ayllus; served as tax collector, and held religious authority, in that they mediated between the supernatural sphere and the mortal realm | 16 | |
| 34672228 | Ayllu | the basic political and social units of pre-Inca and Inca life. These were essentially extended family groups but they could adopt non-related members, giving individual families more variation and security of the land that they farmed | 17 | |
| 34672229 | Metates | a mortar, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds; in traditional Mesoamerican culture, metates were typically used by women who would grind calcified maize and other organic materials during food preparation | 18 | |
| 34672230 | Topac Yupanqui | the tenth Sapa Inca, credited with leading a roughly 10-month long voyage of exploration into the pacific around 1480 | 19 | |
| 34672231 | Huayana Capac | the eleventh Sapa Inca; extended the Inca empire significantly to the south into present-day Chile and Argentina; capital city was in Cuzco; split empire between rightful heir and son | 20 | |
| 34672232 | Tlacaelel | principal architect of the Aztec Triple Alliance and hence the Aztec empire | 21 | |
| 34672233 | Mound builders | general term referring to prehistoric inhabitants of North America who constructed various styles of earthen mounds for burial, residential and ceremonial purposes | 22 | |
| 34672234 | Inca | began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200; later split by a civil war | 23 | |
| 34672235 | Temple of the Sun | used to honor and celebrate Inti, the Sun, an important Incan deity. When the sun of the winter solstice enters through the central window, it falls directly on the large ceremonial stone. The round building protects the stone; at Machu Piccu | 24 | |
| 34672236 | Huacas | believed by the Inca people to be a thing such as a mountain, passage, valley, or building from where each lineage originated and is regarded among the sacred places | 25 | |
| 34672237 | Toltec | Succeeded Teotihuacan culture in central Mexico; strongly militaristic ethic including human sacrifice; influenced large territory after 1000 C.E.; declined after 1200 C.E. | 26 | |
| 34672238 | Huari | a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the Andes in the south-central coastal area of modern-day Peru, from about A.D. 500 to 900 | 27 |
