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TeamSpence SA
TeamSpence Spanish America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Mexica settled on an island in marshy region of Lake Texcoco their capital city was | Tenochtitlan |
| Mexica were often referred to as | Aztecs |
| small plots of land built up from muck from the lake's bottom | Chinampas |
| The Mexicas conquered this area making it a bulwark for the emerging Mexica empire | Oaxaca |
| "the Obsidian Serpent" | Itzcoatl |
| This spanish soldier marveled at the sight before him when he first saw Tenochtitlan | Bernal Diaz del Castillo |
| Mexica society was | rigidly hierarchical |
| Males were seen as | potential warriors |
| Battle allowed individuals of common birth to | improve their social standing |
| these people were showered with wealth and honor and recieved extensive land grants | Military elites and accomplished warriors |
| These laws required commoners to wear coarse burlap garments made of henequen but allowed aristocrats to wear cotton | sumptuary laws |
| womens role in society | no public role and dominated by military values |
| Mexica societies promoted women toward | motherhood and homemaking |
| women who diedin childbirth won the same fate as | warriors who died valiantly on the battlefield |
| Montecuzoma II was a supreme ruler and | priest fo the most popular Mexica cult |
| calpulli | clans or groups |
| families could sell what in times of financial distress | their Mexica slaves |
| when the Mexica moved to MExico they already knew and spoke which language | Nahuatl language |
| they maintained a complicated calendar based on a solar year of how many days | 365 |
| thier ritual calendar consisted of how many days | 260 |
| "The smoking mirror" | principal god Tezcatlipoca |
| "The Feathered Sperpent" | principal god Quetzalcoatl |
| Tezcatlipoca represented | the giver and taker of life and the patron deity of warriors |
| Quetzalcoatl represented | reputation for supporting arts, crafts, and agriculture |
| Mexica honored their deities through | sacrificial bloodletting |
| which cult demanded scrificial victims to keep their war god happy | Huitzilopochtli's cult |
| the incas settled in what area | lake titicaca |
| Inca originally was the title of whom | the rulers of a small kingdom in the valley of cuzco |
| who ruled the inca empire from 1438-`1471 | Pachacuti |
| Incan armies were composed of mostly | conquered peoples |
| the incas used what kind of record keeping item | quipu |
| inca rulers decendants did what | mummified remains of their ancestors |
| when buried ancestors were | dressed in fine clothes and covered in gold and silver jewelry |
| ayllu were | cultivators mostly peasants of common birth living in a community |
| families in ayllu | lived together, shared land, tools, animals, crops, and work |
| recognized what as divine | moon stars planets rain and other natural forces |
| language in Spanish America | Spanish |
| leader of Inca empire | Pachacuti |
| staple food crop | corn |
| early expansion of Islam facislitated | diffusion of plants and food crops |
| the bubonic plague caused drastic demographic losses when the disease struck which areas | Eaurasian and North African lands |
| what brought |
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