the americas Flashcards

243759497	maya	the earliest heirs of the olmec	0
243759498	slash and burn (or shifting) agriculture	people who lived in the rainforest used this practice	1
243759499	stelae	series of altars and memorial pillars	2
243759500	teotihuacan	centeral city	3
243759501	toltecs	a group that migrated from northwestern mexico	4
243759502	chinampas	floating gardens	5
243759503	tribute system	conqered people had to contribute maize, beans, and other foods to support tenochtitlan	6
243759504	moche	new group of people who built a society that thrived from 100 to 700 ce	7
243759505	the inca	most powerful and well organized civilization that that formed a vast imperial state during the 15th century	8
243759506	mit'a system	each person owned compulsory land services to the inca	9
243759507	khipu	system of cords and beads for counting	10
243759508	ayllus	inca bureacrats kept track of the labor service and tribute owned by local communities	11
243759509	inca	chief ruler	12
243759510	quechua	language and religious cult of cuzco	13
243759511	anasazi	people who used river water to irrigate crops of maize, beans, squash, and sunflowers	14
243759512	cahokia	the place where the largest and most important mound builders were located	15
243759513	temujin	later to be known as genghis khan	16
243759514	genghis khan	one of the most famous warriors in history	17
243759515	kubilai khan	another of genghis's grandsons	18
243759516	khanate of the great khan	this empire was first ruled from the old capital at karakorun in mongolia, but was moved to khanbalik, the mongol name for the old jin capital at beijing	19
243759517	khanate of jagadai	this khanate in centeral asia was ruled by the descendants of genghis's son, jugadai	20
243759518	khanate of the golden horde	the origins of the name is not clear but one story is that it is based on the sun catching the shields and weapons of the freat mongol armies as it marched toward its victims	21
243759519	ii khan	established by hulegu, yet another grandson, this state controlled parts of armenia, all of azerbaijan, mesopotamia and iran	22
243759520	pax mongolica	mongol peace, similiar to pax romana	23
243759521	black death	worst pandemic in world history	24
243759522	timur	broke the peace of ii khan	25
243759523	osman	settled in anatolia and gathered a following of supporters	26
243759524	ottoman turks	declared independence from the sejuck turks and established himself founder	27
243759525	alexander nevsiki	agreed to mongol demands for tribute	28
243759526	kubilai khan	genghis's talented grandson	29
243759527	yuan dynasty	in 1279 kublai khan proclaimed himself chinese emperor and founded this dynasty	30
243759528	ming dynasty	ruled china for the next three centuries	31