(The Post-Classical Era: 600-1450) These are all of the bolded terms for this chapter that the book gives definitions for, I recommend on just studying the ones you need to know
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| 8176626383 | Indians | Misnomer created by Columbus referring to indigenous peoples of New World; implies social and ethnic commonality among Native Americans that did not exist; still used to apply to Native Americans. | 0 | |
| 8176626384 | 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 | |
| 8176657199 | Topiltzin | Religious leader and reformer of the Toltecs in the 10th century; dedicated to god Quetzalcoatl; after losing the struggle for power, went into exile in the Yucatan peninsula. | 2 | |
| 8176669462 | Quetzalcoatl | Toltec deity; Feathered Serpent; adopted by Aztecs as a major god. | 3 | |
| 8176675246 | Tenochtitlan | Founded c. 1325 on a marshy island in Lake Texcoco; became the center of Aztec power; joined with Tlacopan and Texcoco in 1434 to form a triple alliance that controlled most of the central plateau of Mesoamerica. | 4 | |
| 8176687206 | Tlaloc | Major god of Aztecs; associated with fertilitiy and the agricultural cyle; god of rain. | 5 | |
| 8176695299 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of the cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god. | 6 | |
| 8176706335 | Nezhualcoyotl | Leading Aztec king of the 15th century. | 7 | |
| 8176709898 | Chinampas | Beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to create "floating islands"; a system of irrigated agriculture utilized by Aztecs. | 8 | |
| 8176723157 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items. | 9 | |
| 8176737397 | Calpulli | Clans in Aztec society, later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors. | 10 | |
| 8176748211 | 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 | |
| 8176766340 | Ayllus | Households in Andean societies that recognized some form of kinship traced descent from some common, sometimes mythical ancestor. | 12 | |
| 8176778687 | Twantinsuyu | The word for Inca empire; region from present-day Colombia to Chile and eastward to northern Argentina. | 13 | |
| 8176784212 | Split Inheritance | Inca practice of descent; all titles and political power went to the successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult and dead Inca's mummy. | 14 | |
| 8176800320 | Temple of the Sun | Inca religious center located at Cuzco; the center of a Tambosstate religion; held mummies of past Inca. | 15 | |
| 8176827776 | Tambos | Way stations used by Incas as inns and storehouses; supply centers for Inca armies on the move; relay points for a system of runners used to carry messages. | 16 | |
| 8176830837 | 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 | |
| 8176851237 | Inca Socialism | A view created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia; an image of the Inca empire as a carefully organized system in which every community collectively contributed to the whole. | 18 | |
| 8176874940 | 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. | 19 | |
| 8176882672 | Quipu | A 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. | 20 |
