ch. 21 AP world history Flashcards

107334574	Teotihuacan was	largest early city in Mesoamerica	0
107334575	The most important city of the Toltec's was	Tula	1
107334576	The influence of the Maya on the Toltec can be seen in the similarities between Tula and the Maya city of	Chichen Itza	2
107334577	The Toltec state collapsed by around 1175 because	civil conflict and nomadic incursion	3
107334578	Mexica	Aztecs arrived in Mexico, reputation as troublemakers	4
107334579	The word Aztlán means	the place of the 7 legendary caves	5
107334580	The capital of the Aztec empire was	Tenochtitlan	6
107334581	The chinampa system refers to	dredged a rich and fertile much from the lakes bottom and built it up into small plots of fertile land	7
107334582	By the middle of the fifteenth century, the Mexica had formed a triple alliance with	Texcoco and Tlacopan	8
107334583	The Aztec expansion began under	Itzcoatl	9
107334584	At its high point, the Aztec empire contained a population of around	12 million	10
107334585	In regard to political structure the Aztec empire	local government run by conquered people and organized tribute	11
107334586	In regard to military structure, the Aztecs	no permanent standing army, simply assembled forces as needed when they launched campaigns of expansion or mounted expeditions	12
107334587	Bernal Díaz del Castillo was	a spanish soldier	13
107334588	In the Aztec social hierarchy most of the honors and rewards went to the	military elite	14
107334589	Rulers among the Mexica were chosen by	most successful warriors	15
107334590	Women in Aztec society	high honors as mothers of warriors played no public role	16
107334591	The primary role of women in Mexica society	bear children	17
107334592	A Mexica woman who died in childbirth	great honors celebrated	18
107334593	Mexica priests	ranked among military elite	19
107334594	Most Mexica slave	worked as domestic servants	20
107334595	When the Mexica migrated to central Mexico they	they spoke the nahuatl language and adopted the culture	21
107334596	Tezcatlipoca was	a powerful figure giver and taker of life and patron deity of warriors	22
107334597	Tezcatlipoca was also known as	"the smoking mirror"	23
107334598	Most Aztec human sacrifices were in honor of	Huitzilopochtli	24
107334599	The Aztecs viewed human sacrifice	viewed it as essential to world survival	25
107334600	North American societies	Pueblo and Navajo	26
107334601	The Pueblo and Navajo peoples of the American southwest	tapped river waters to irrigate crops of maize	27
107334602	The five Iroquois nations were the	Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca	28
107334603	Cahokia was	largest surviving mound	29
107334604	The North American Indian societies	trade networks	30
107334605	The kingdom of Chucuito was located in	dominated highlands region around lake titicaca	31
107334606	The capital city of Chimu was	Chanchan	32
107334607	The ruins of Chanchan	population had 50,000 lie close to the modern city of Trujillo, massive brick buildings	33
107334608	The most important ruler in the expansion of the Inca empire was	Pachacuti	34
107334609	The Inca imposed order	?	35
107334610	The Inca quipu was	mnemonic aid consisted of an array of small cords	36
107334611	The capital of the Inca empire was	Cuzco	37
107334612	Rulers of which group deliberated state policy in the presence of the mummies of their predecessors?	ruling elite	38
107334613	The Inca sun god was	Inti	39
107334614	The cultural and religious traditions of the Australian aborigines	moral dimension, intense concern for immediate environment	40
107334615	The massive stone palace at Nan Madol was located	on pohnpei in the Caroline Islands	41
107334616	The Hawaiian class of high chiefs were known as the	ali'I nui	42
107334617	A marae was	ceremonial precinct and temple structure	43