ap world history: chapter 20 vocab Flashcards
chapter 20: Worlds Apart - The Americans and Oceania
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| 7935790509 | Teotihuacan | "The Place of the Gods"; first planned city in the Americas in the Valley of Mexico | 0 | |
| 7935790510 | Chichén Itzá | a Mayan state that tried to unify the Mayan people under one centralized rule | 1 | |
| 7935790511 | Mexica / Aztecs | founded Tenochititlan and the Aztecs, regarded themselves as chosen people in charge of keeping the world from destruction | 2 | |
| 7935790512 | Chinampas | floating farming islands made by the Aztec | 3 | |
| 7940554281 | Tenochtitlan | the captial city of the Aztecs | 4 | |
| 7940554282 | Calpulli | 7 Aztec clans that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 5 | |
| 7940554283 | calendars | a schedule that lists the order in which bills will be considered in Congress | 6 | |
| 7940554284 | Quetzalcoatl | an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent | 7 | |
| 7940554285 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec god of sun and war | 8 | |
| 7940554286 | matriarchy | a form of social organization in which females dominate males | 9 | |
| 7940554287 | confederation | an alliance of independent states | 10 | |
| 7940554288 | Cuzco | the capital city of the Incan Empire, located in present-day Peru | 11 | |
| 7940554289 | Allyus | in Incan society, a clan or community that worked together on projects required by the ruler | 12 | |
| 7940554290 | Quipu | knotted cords of various lengths and colors used by the Inca to keep financial records | 13 | |
| 7940554291 | mummification | the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth | 14 |