AP World History Ch. 11 Flashcards

261602400	sacred spirits and powers that resided or appeared in caves, mountain, rocks, river, and other natural phenomena	huacas	0
261602401	toltec deity adopted by aztecs as a major god (feathered serpent)	quetzalcoatl	1
261602402	leading aztec king of the 15th century	nezhualcoyotl	2
261602403	succeeded teotihuacan culture in central mexico	toltec culture	3
261602404	special merchant class in aztec society that specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items	pochteca	4
261602405	system of knotted strings utilized by the incas in place of a writing system	quipu	5
261602406	clans in aztec society that later expanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors	calpulli	6
261602407	major god of aztecs associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle	tlaloc	7
261602408	a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia	inca socialism	8
261602409	inca religious center located at cuzco, center of state religion, held mummies of past incas	temple of the sun	9
261602410	misnomer created by columbus referring to indigenous peoples of new world	indian	10
261602411	way stations used by incas as inns and storehouses	tambos	11
261602412	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	yanas	12
261602413	labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion	mita	13
261602414	ruler of inca society that launched a series of military campaigns that gave incas control from cuzco to lake titicaca	pachacuti	14
261602415	beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to create floating islands	chinampas	15
261602416	city that became the center of aztec power	tenochtitlan	16
261602417	ayllu chiefs with privileges of dress and access to resources	curacas	17
261602418	inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)	split inheritance	18
261602419	word for inca empire	twantinsuyu	19
261602420	religious leader and reformer of the toltecs	topiltzin	20
261602421	aztec tribal patron god	huitzilopchtli	21