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| 271243285 | Indian | 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 americans | 0 | |
| 271243286 | toltec culture | succeeded teotihuacan culture in central mexico; strongly militaristic ethic including human sacrifice; influenced large territory after 1000 ce. declined after 1200 ce. | 1 | |
| 271243287 | topiltzin | religous leader reformer of the toltecsin 10th century; dedicated to god quetzalcoatl; after losing struggle for power, went into exhile in the yucatan peninsula | 2 | |
| 271243288 | quetzalcoatl | toltec deity;feathered serpent; adopted by aztecs as a major god | 3 | |
| 271243289 | tenochitilan | founded c 1325 on marshy island in lake texcoco; became center of aztec power; joined with tlacopan and texcoco in 1434 to form a triploe alliance that controlled most of central plateau of mesoamerica | 4 | |
| 271243290 | tialoc | major god of aztecs associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle; god of rain | 5 | |
| 271243291 | huitzilopochtli | aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; indentfied with old sun god | 6 | |
| 271243292 | nezhualcoyotl | leader aztec king of the 15th centruy | 7 | |
| 271243293 | chinampas | beds of aquatics weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane, and rooted in lakes to create floating islands; system of irrigated agriculture utilized by aztecs | 8 | |
| 271243294 | pochteca | special merchant class in aztec society; specialized in long distance trade in luxury items | 9 | |
| 271243295 | calpulli | clans in aztec society, later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 10 | |
| 271243296 | ayllus | households in andean societies that recognized some form of kinship; traced descent from some common, sometimes mythical ancestor | 11 | |
| 271243297 | 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 | 12 | |
| 271243298 | twantinsuyu | word for inca empire; region from present day columbia to chile and eastward to northern argentina | 13 | |
| 271243299 | split inheritance | inca practice of descent; all title and political pwer went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead inca's mummy | 14 | |
| 271243300 | temple of the sun | inca religous center located at cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past incas | 15 | |
| 271243301 | tambos | way stations used by the incas as inns and storehouse; supply centers for inca armies on move; relay points for system of runners used to carry messages | 16 | |
| 271243302 | 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 | 17 | |
| 271243303 | inca socialism | a view created by spanish aithors to escribe inca society as a type of utopia;image of the inca empire as a carefullyorganized system in which every community collectively contributed to the whole | 18 | |
| 271243304 | yanas | a class of people within inca society removed from their ayllus to serve permanentlyas servants, artisans, or workers for the inca or the inca nobility | 19 | |
| 271243305 | quipu | system of knotted strings utilized by the incas in place of a writing system; could numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records | 20 |
