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Chapter 11: The Americas on the Eve of Invasion

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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The term was a misnomer created by Columbus for Native Americans when he thought he had reached the Indies.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Nomadic peoples from beyond the northern frontier of the sedentary agricultural area in Mesoamerica, the established a capital at Tula.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was a religious leader and reformer of the Toltecs who emigrated from Tula to the Yucatan peninsula.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Originally a Mayan city, was conquered by the Toltecs ca. 1000 and ruled by Toltec dynasties.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Mexica or penetrated into sedentary agricultural zone of Mexico after Toltec collapse and established an empire ca. 1325.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The language of the Toltecs and Aztecs was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Founded ca. 1325 on a marshy island in Lake Texcoco, became the center of Aztec power.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was one of the major Aztec gods associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle as the god of rain.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Aztec tribal patron god was , the central figure of the cult of human sacrifice and warfare.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Originally a Toltec deity, appeared as a Feathered Serpent.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The were beds of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to create "floating islands."

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The specialized merchant class in Aztec society were called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The seven major clans in Aztec society or were later expanded to sixty and divided into residential groupings that distributed land and provided labor and warriors.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. , or death while taking prisoners for sacrifice, was thought by the Aztecs to be a fitting end to a noble life and an assurance of eternity in the highest heaven.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The view created by Spanish authors to describe Inca society as a type of utopia and carefully organized system in which every community contributed to the whole is called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The modern interpretation of Aztec society created by Marvin Harris, the relies on the absence of large mammals to replace humans for sacrifice.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create an empire in Andean civilization ca. 1438 were the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471, launched a series of military campaigns that gave him control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Inca word for their empire was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Inca practice of descent, , granted all titles and political power to the ruler's successor, but wealth and land remained in the hands of male descendants for support of the cult of the dead Inca's mummy.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Located in Cuzco, the was the religious center of the Inca empire.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Waystations used by Incas as inns and storehouses, could also serve as supply centers for Inca armies on the move.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Labor services extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion in the Inca empire were called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The were a class of people removed from their ayllus to serve permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the Inca and his family.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The system of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system, could contain numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records.

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