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Unit 4 Flashcards

1
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  • group of Nahuatl-speaking people who migrated southward to Central Valley of Mexico
  • eventually established an empire
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Aztecs

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2
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-language Aztecs spoke

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Nahautl

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3
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  • young warrior God
  • symbol was sun
  • human sacrifices were to him
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Huitzilopochtli

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4
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  • one of the twin cities Aztecs built
  • very big
  • highly defensible
  • streets/canals turned into public squares/market places where tradespeople traded all different kinds of merchandise
  • one side of central square –> great temple of Huitzilopchtli
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Tenochtitlan

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5
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  • great lords who were war heroes
  • lived luxuriously
  • exercised political/military authority on Empire’s behalf, maintained order
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Tecuhtli

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6
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  • vast majority of population
  • did agricultural, military, domestic services
  • paid taxes
  • was able to hold land for life
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Macehualtin

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7
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  • landless workers/serfs
  • paid rents in kind
  • bound to soil
  • more respect than slaves
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Tlalmaitl

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8
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  • name of governing family of a group that settled in the basin of Cuzco
  • civilization of people that developed in largest central valleys of Peru
  • established one of the most extraordinary empires in the world, conquered all surrounding groups –> gradually spread throughout Peru
  • religious ideology was force that transformed culture and created pressure for imperialist expansion
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Inca

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9
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  • first deemed the official language of Incas under Pachacuti
  • still spoken by most Peruvians today
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Quechua

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10
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  • system in place of taxes requiring male labor for state

- 2 to 3 months doing work for empire ex. farming, mining

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Mita

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-intricate system of knotted and colored strings used by early Peruvian cultures to store information such as census and tax records

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Khipu

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12
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  • fundamental social unit of Inca society

- owed allegiance to curacas

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Ayllu

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13
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-clan leaders of ayllus

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Curacas

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14
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  • had role in early phases of Portuguese exploration
  • supported the study of geography/navigation
  • sponsored annual expedition down western coast of Africa
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Prince Henry the Navigator

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  • Portuguese explorer

- wanted “Christians and spices”

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Vasco de Gama

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  • Portuguese explorer
  • motives were “to serve God and His Majesty, and to to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do”
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Bartholomew Diaz

17
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  • new ship
  • had added sail and rudder
  • advancement in technology which helped sea navigation
A

Caravel

18
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  • first European man to find America, was trying to find Japan, actually landed in Cuba
  • goal of first voyage was to find direct ocean trading route to Asia
  • after recounting discovery to Crown, Spanish would follow policy of colonization in New World
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Christopher Columbus

19
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  • Spanish conquistador

- “I have come to win gold, not to plow the fields like a peasant” about conquering Mexico

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Hernando Cortes

20
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  • Aztec emperor

- distributed grain to people after flood

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Montezuma

21
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  • son of Inca Huayna Capac
  • threatened to get rid of cult of royal mummies
  • lost to his brother in civil war
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Huascar

22
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  • son of Inca Huayna Capac
  • nobles supported him after Huascar’s threat
  • defeated his brothers green recruits with veteran warriors
  • on way to Coronation was ambushed by Pizarro
A

Atahualpa

23
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  • Spanish conquistador

- him and his troops ambushed Atahualpa in 1532, and collected ransom

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Francisco Pizarro

24
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  • system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians
  • disguised form of slavery
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Encomienda system

25
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-name for the four administrative units of Spanish possessions in the Americas: New Spain, Peru, New Granada, La Plata

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Viceroyalties

26
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-board of 12-15 judges that served as his advisory council and the highest judicial body

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Audiencia

27
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  • Spanish word for conqueror

- Spanish soldier-explore who sought to conquer the New World for the Spanish crown

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Conquistador

28
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-exchange of animals, plants, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds (Africa, Europe, and America)

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Columbian Exchange

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