AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards

5475698662	Olmecs	(1400 B.C.E. to 500 B.C.E.) earliest known Mexican civilization,lived in rainforests along the Gulf of Mexico, developed calendar and constructed public buildings and temples, carried on trade with other groups.	0
5475698663	Mayan	a large family of American Indian languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya and Quiché.	1
5475698664	Tenochtitlan	was the capital city of the Aztec Empire from the middle of the 1300s to the early 1500s.	2
5475698665	Chinampas	is a type of Mesoamerican agriculture which used small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds.	3
5475698666	Toltecs	a member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs.	4
5475698667	Aztecs	a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.	5
5475698668	Tribute System	was the network of trade and foreign relations between China and its tributaries that helped to shape much of East Asian affairs.	6
5475698669	Mississippian People	1 : of or relating to Mississippi, its people, or the Mississippi River. 2 : of, relating to, or being the period of the Paleozoic era in North America following the Devonian and preceding the Pennsylvanian or the corresponding system of rocks — see geologic time table.	7
5475698670	Pachacuti	was the ninth Sapa Inca (1438-1471/1472) of the Kingdom of Cusco which he transformed into the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu).	8
5475698671	Inca	a South American hummingbird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with one or two white breast patches.	9
5475698672	LLamas	a domesticated pack animal of the camel family found in the Andes, valued for its soft woolly fleece.	10
5475698673	Quipu	an ancient Inca device for recording information, consisting of variously colored threads knotted in different ways.	11
5475698674	Incan Roads	was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was about 39,900 kilometres (24,800 mi) long.	12
5475698675	Matrilineal System	of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.	13
5475698676	Mita System	was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire. Historians use the hispanicized term mita to differentiate the system as it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system.	14
5475698677	Human Sacrifice	is the act of killing one or more human beings, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual.	15
5475698678	Royal Ancestor Veneration	the custom of venerating deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living.	16
5475698679	Pochteca	were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. They were a small, but important class as they not only facilitated commerce, but also communicated vital information across the empire and beyond its borders. The trade or commerce was referred to as pochtecayotl.	17