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| 14221501 | Indian | Misnomer created by Columbus referring to indiginous peoples of New World. | 0 | |
| 14221502 | Toltecs | Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of the sedentary agricultural area of Mesoamarica. | 1 | |
| 14221503 | Aztecs | The Mexaca; one of the nomad tribes that used political anarchy after fall of Toltecs to penetrate into sedentary agricultural zone of Mesoamerica plateau. | 2 | |
| 14221504 | Tenochtitlan | Founded c. 1325 on marshy island in Lake Texoco; became center of Aztec power. | 3 | |
| 14221505 | Tlacaelel | Advisor to Aztec rulers from 1427 to c. 1480; had histories of Mexico rewritten. | 4 | |
| 14221506 | Huitcilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god. | 5 | |
| 14221507 | Calpulli | Seven clan in Aztec society, later expanded to more than sixty; divided into residential groupings that distributed land and provided lador and warriors. | 6 | |
| 14221508 | Chinampas | Beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames of caneand rooted in lakes to create "floating islands", system of irrigated agriculture utilized by Aztecs. | 7 | |
| 14221509 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items. | 8 | |
| 14221510 | Inca Socialism | A view created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia. | 9 | |
| 14221511 | Twantinsuyu | Word for Inca Empire; region from present-day Columbia to Chile and eastwart to northern Argentina. | 10 | |
| 14221512 | Inca | Group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire in Andean civilization. | 11 | |
| 14221513 | Pachachuti | 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 | |
| 14221514 | Topac Yupanqui | Pachacuti's son and successor from 1471 to 1493; conquered northern coastal kingdom of Chimor by seizing it's irrigation system; extended Inca control into the southern area of what is now Ecuador. | 13 | |
| 14221515 | Huayna Capac | ruler from 1493 to 1527; consolidated conquests and suppressed rebellions on the frontier. | 14 | |
| 14221516 | Split Inheritance | Inca practice of decent; all titles and political power went to succesor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male decendants for suppot and cult of dead Inca's mummy. | 15 | |
| 14221517 | Temple of the Sun | Inca religious center locates at Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas. | 16 | |
| 14221518 | Mitmaq | Inca colonists in new regions; used to pacify new conquest or conquered population moved to new home. | 17 | |
| 14221519 | Tambos | Way stations used by Incas as inns and storehouseslsupple centers for Inca armies on move; relay points for system of runners used to carry messages. | 18 | |
| 14221520 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the region; an essential aspect of Inca inperial control. | 19 | |
| 14221521 | Quipu | System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writting system. | 20 |
