AP World History Chapter 8 Vocab

Tlaloc

• god of rain

• Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god
  

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields

• special merchant class in Aztec society that specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items.

Huitzilopochtli

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god
  

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields

• special merchant class in Aztec society that specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items.

Chinampas

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields

• special merchant class in Aztec society that specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items.

Pochteca

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia

• special merchant class in Aztec society that specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items.

Pachacuti

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia

• ruler of inca society that launched a series of military campaigns that gave incas control from cuzco to lake titicaca

Split Inheritance

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia

• System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system

Mita

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia

• System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system

Inca Socialism

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia

• System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system

Quipo

• inca practice of descent (all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead incas mummy)

• labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion

• a view created by spanish authors to describe inca society as a type of utopia

• System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system