Week 5 Study Terms Flashcards
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Agency
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Refers to the ability of individuals and groups to make meaningful choices to take actions and shape their own circumstances
2
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Smallpox
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A viral disease that was brought to the Americas where it ravaged the Indigenous population
3
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Tenochtitlan
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The capital city of the Mexica Empire, present day Mexico City
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Xiuhpohualli
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The Nahuas’ oral tradition, a “yearly account” by a trained orator
After learning the Roman alphabet, Nahua writers recorded many of these histories in their own Nahuatl language
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The Aztecs
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Means, “people from Aztlan”, coined by scholars in 1700s, but Aztlan may not have been a real place
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The Mexica
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The specific group who came to dominate central Mexico in the 1400s
