1-3 Key Terms

Question 1

Chasquis

Answer 1

Incan relay runners used to send messages over a great distance

Question 2

Chattel Slavery

Answer 2

A system of servitude in which people are treated as personal property to be bought & sold

Question 3

Chinampas

Answer 3

Floating Aztec gardens consisting of a large barge woven from reeds, filled with dirt and floating on the water, allowing for irrigation

Question 4

Crusades

Answer 4

A series of military expeditions made by Christian Europeans to recover the holy land from Muslims in the 11th, 12th, & 13th centuries

Question 5

Feudal society

Answer 5

Social arrangement in which serfs & knights provide labor and military service to noble lords, reviving protection & land to use

Question 6

Inquisition

Answer 6

A campaign by the Catholic Church to root out Hersey, especially among converted Jews & Muslims

Question 7

Koran

Answer 7

Scared books of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the word of god; dictated to Muhammad through an angel in the 17th century

Question 8

Matriarchy

Answer 8

A society where women have political power

Question 9

Mita

Answer 9

Incan labor tax, each family donating time & work to projects

Question 10

Polygyny

Answer 10

Practice of taking more than one wife

Question 11

Quipn

Answer 11

Ancient Incan device for recording information, consisting of variously colored thread knotted in different ways

Question 12

Reconquista

Answer 12

Spains nearly 800 holy way against Islam, ending in 1492

Question 13

Serf

Answer 13

A peasant tied to the land & its lord

Question 14

Black legend

Answer 14

Spains reputation as bloody thrusts conquistadors

Question 15

Calvinism

Answer 15

A branch of Protestantism started by John Calvin; emphasizing human powerlessness before an omniscient god & stressing ideas of predestination

Question 16

Colombian exchange

Answer 16

Movement of plants, animals, and disease across the Atlantic due to European exploration of Americans

Question 17

Commodification