APW Chapter 11 Vocab
AP Global Vocab words for Test on Chapter 11
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- Twantinsuyu
- Inca word for their empire
- Chichen Itza
- originally a Mayan city, conquered by the Toltecs in 1000 and ruled by Toltec dynasties
- calpulli
- seven major clans in Aztec society that distributed land and provided labor and warriors
- Inca socialism
- carefully organized system in which every community contributed to the whole; view created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia
- "flowery death"
- death while taking prisoners for sacrifice, was thought by Aztecs to be a noble death and an assurance of eternity in the highest heaven
- Topiltzin
- religious leader and reformer of the Toltecs who emigrated from Tula to the Yucatan peninsula
- tambos
- waystations used by Incas as inns and storehouses, also served as supply centers for Inca armies on the move
- Quetzalcoatl
- originally a Toltec deity, appeared as a Feathered Serpent
- yanas
- class of people removed from their ayllus to serve permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the Inca and his family
- pochteca
- specialized merchant class in Aztec society
- mita
- labor services extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion in the Inca empire
- Temple of the Sun
- located in Cuzco, religious center of Inca empire
- Tlaloc
- one of the major Aztec gods associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle as the god of rain
- cannibal kingdom
- modern interpretation of Aztec society created by Marvin Harris