Chapter 11 History Terms Flashcards

269662161	Maize	Tall annual grass bearing kernels on large eat: widely cultivated in America in many varieties	0
269662162	Bloodletting Rituals	the ritualized self-cutting or piercing of one's body. Crucial to the maintenance of social and political structure	1
269662163	Teotihuacan	A powerful city-state in central Mexico with a peak population of about 150,00	2
269662164	Chinampas	raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields	3
269662165	Maya	Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, and Honduras.	4
269662166	Toltecs	Powerful postclassic empire in central Mexico.	5
269662167	Aztecs	created a powerful empire in central Mexico. They forced defeated people to provide goods and labor as a tax	6
269662168	Tenochtitlan	Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco	7
269662169	Tribute System	A system in which defeated people were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor	8
269662170	Huitzilopochtli	the god of war, a sun god, and the Patron of Tenochtitlan... "Hummingbird on the left"	9
269662171	Anasazi	important culture of what is now the southwest United States. Centered on Chaco Canyon in new mexico, and Mesa Verde in Colorado.	10
269662172	Chimu	A civilization flourishing on the northern coast of Peru from about 1200 to 1460	11
269662173	Coca	The dried leaves of the tropical coca plant are chewed as a stimulant by the people of western south america and also used to make the drug cocaine	12
269662174	Tiwanku	capital city and empire centered on the region near Lake Titicaca in modern Bolivia	13
269662175	Wari	Andean civilization culturally linked to Tiwanku, perhaps beginning as a colony of Tiwanku	14
269662176	Inca	Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco	15
269662177	Khipu	system of knotted colored cords used by preliterate Andean peoples to transmit information	16
269662178	Mit'a	Andean labor system based on shared obligations to help kinsmen and work on behalf of the rule and religious organizations	17
269662179	Moche	civilization of the north coast of Peru	18