Chapter 11
Terms : Hide Images
| 298984020 | Indians | A name for the native people of the Americas;native Americans. | 0 | |
| 298984021 | Toltec culture | Succeeded Teotihuacan culture in central Mexico; strongly militaristic ethic including human sacrifice; influenced large territory after 1000 C.E.; declined after 1200 C.E. | 1 | |
| 298984022 | Topiltzin | Religious leader and reformer of the Toltecs; dedicated to god Quetzalcoatl; after losing struggle for power, went into exile in the Yucatan peninsula | 2 | |
| 298984023 | Quetzalcoatl | Aztec nature god, feathered serpent, his disappearance and promised return coincided with the arrival of Cortes | 3 | |
| 298984024 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. (p. 305) | 4 | |
| 298984025 | Tlaloc | one of the major Aztec gods associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle as the god of rain | 5 | |
| 298984026 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god | 6 | |
| 298984027 | Nezhualcoyotl | Leading Aztec king of the 15th century- king of Texaco- wrote hymns and poetry- creative force for gods | 7 | |
| 298984028 | chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 8 | |
| 298984029 | pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | 9 | |
| 298984030 | calpulli | Clans in Aztec society, later explanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 10 | |
| 298984031 | Pachacuti | Ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471; launched a series of military campaigns that gave Incas control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca | 11 | |
| 298984032 | Twantinsuyu | Word for Inca Empire; region from present-day Columbia to Chile and eastward to northern Argentina | 12 | |
| 298984033 | split inheritance | Inca practice of descent; all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead Inca's mummy. | 13 | |
| 298984034 | Temple of the Sun | Inca religious center located at Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas | 14 | |
| 298984035 | 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 | |
| 298984036 | mita | in the Incan empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year. | 16 | |
| 298984037 | 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. | 17 | |
| 298984038 | quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 18 |
