collisions flashcards

mexica/aztec

• Group of people/empire that occupied mesoamerica

• Very militarily strong, religious, and imposed a tribute system

• Imfamous for imposing human sacrifice

Tecnochtitlan

• Capital cuty of the aztec

• In lake Texcoco

Tlatelolco

• Another Aztec city with the biggest marketplace

Pochteca

• Professional merchants

• Often wealthier than nobles

Huizilopochtli

• Patron deity of the aztecs who is always fighting the darkness

• Gave his blood to the humans so he needs their blood to replenish him

Inca

• Empire of Quecha speaking people in the andean regiion

Viracocha

• creator god of the inca, ancestor of the sapay inca

Inti

• Sun god of the Inca, father of the sapay inca

Quipu

• Knotted cords that served as an accounting device

Mita

• Form of tribute but in manual labor not goods

Chosen women

• Removed fom their homes as young girls

• Trained in inca idealogy

• Produced corn beer and cloth at state centers

• Given as wives to important men or served as priestesess

Gender parallelism

• When men and women operate in different but equal spheres

Sapay inca

• Supreme ruler of the inca/emperor

Coya

• High priestess of the inca

Prince henry the navigator

• Put together a navigation school by bringing in many experts

John Cabot

• English explorer who landed in newfoundland

Ferdinand magellan

• Portuguese explorer who sailed to the philippines

Hernan Cortes

• Conqueror of the aztec empire

Moctezuma II

• Aztec emperor when cortes conquered them

Francisco Pizarro

• Conqueror of the inca

Atahualpa

• Emperor of the inca

Treaty of tordesillas

• Line drew in the new world to divide between the spanish and portuguese

Encomienda

• Reward of gaining people to do whatever you want with

Floating islands

• Islands for farming in swamps by the aztec

Terrace farming

• The way the inca would farm on the mountains

Afonso I

• One of the most pivotal figures in the history of the Kongo

• Ruled as king but wasnt supposed to

• Encouraged a lot of cultural diffusion with portugal

• Went to war with other nearby societies to gain prisoners of war to trade in the slave trade

King joao

• King of portugal

Atlantic system/triangular trade

• Trade route where all of the atlantic were trading things to eachother

• Had many ‘legs’ since the trading partners didnt always have what the other person needed

• Slaves transported on the middle leg

Casta painting

• Painting that showed social hierarchy based on race

• First concepts of race

One drop rule

• Way of determining ssomeones race in the domincan republic

Bateys

•  Sugar plantations in the Dominican republic, with most of the labor being done by Haitians

Jimeta

• Style of horse riding developed by the spanish

Jacobus

• Spanish gun

Small pox

• The disease that the europeans brought which wiped out most of the indigenous population

Queen isabella and Ferdinand

• King and queen of Spain, gave money and resources to many explorers

Royal 5th

• 20% tac on mining

Mestizo

• A person whose parents are native and european

Mulatto

• A persons whose parents are spanish and african

Malinche

• Cortes partner while he was in the new world

• He left her once he went bacl to spain to his actual wife

Princess Isabel

• Moctezuma’s daughter

• Very devout catholic

Isabel de Guevara

• Helped conquer argentina and paraguay

• Many men were not doing well and she took over

Ines Suarez

• Looked for her husband in the new world but found he was dead

• Became mistress of the conqueror of chile

Viceroyalties

• Places where viceroys would rule in the name of the spanish king

Eugenho

• Sugar mills

• People with these were known as mill lords

  • Owned 100s of slaves