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Unit1 History Elliot
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tiahuanaco | A culture that thrived in the Andean |
| Cuzco | capital city of the inca empire |
| Quipu | knotted strings used by Inca officials for record keeping |
| Ayllu | In the Inca empire, a close - knit village |
| Inti | The Inca sun god |
| Chavin Culture | Earliest culture that left their mark on the Andean religion |
| Andean Building Material | Adobe |
| First Incan Emperor | Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui or Sapa Inca |
| United Incan Empire | Created networks, imposed their language |
| Incas were master of what skill? | Weaving |
| Pueblo | Spanish name for a community of multifloor dwellings found in the southwest |
| Kiva | large, underground chamber used for religious ceremonies and political meetings |
| Earthwork | giant burial mounds left by the Adena and Hopewell in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys |
| Cahokia | largest city of Mississippi culture, in present day Illinois; once had 20,000 occupants |
| Potlatch | ceremony among native people of the Northwest in which a person gains status by giving away lavish gifts |
| Anasazi Communities | Made communities into mountains |
| Iroquois League | a well-organized political alliance of five northeastern trives in present-day New York |
| Adena People | |
| Hopewell People | |
| Immunity | resistance |
| Hernan Cortez | conquered the Aztecs |
| Tenochtitlan | The capital of Aztec empire |
| Moctezuma | Aztec emperor |
| Civil War | war fought between 2 groups of people in the same nation |
| Invisible Invader | disease that helped the conquiestadors take control of Tainos and other Native Americans |
| Christianity | Hernan Cortes forced Aztects to convert to this. |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquiestador |
| New France | French claims, in Canada from 1500s to 1763 |
| Revenues | money taken in through taxes |
| Pilgrims | English Protestants who rejected the Church of England |
| Compact | An agreement among people |
| Treaty of Paris | treaty of 1763, that ended the Seven Years' War and resulted in British dominance of the Americas |
| Jamestown | |
| Mayflower Compact | English Protestants signed this, in which they set out guidelines for governing their North American colony. |
| French and Indian War | War between Britain and France in the Americas that happened from 1754 to 1763; it was part of a global war called the Seven Years' War |
| Inflation | a rise in prices that is linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available. |
| Price Revolution | When prices rose in Europe due to the huge amount of silver and gold coming in from Americas |
| Capitalism | An economic system in which most business are owned |
| Entrepreneur | A person who takes on financial risks to make profits |
| Mercantilisim | An economic policy in which it was believed that a nation must export more goods than it imports to build its supply of gold and silver |
| Columbian Exchange | a vast global exchange of goods, people, and animals that began with Columbus and profoundly affected the world |
| "Putting Out" system | Also known as "cottage industry", separated capital and labor for the first time |
| Mercantile System | |
| Tariffs | Tax on imported goods |
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