Illustrated Vocabulary #6

In Incan society, a clan or community that worked together on projects required by the ruler

• Ayllus

• Chinampas

• Excommunication

• Inca

Platforms of twisted vines and mud that served the Aztecs as floating gardens and extended their agricultural land

• Excommunication

• Inca

• Chinampas

• Indulgence

The practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with church teachings or practices

• Inca

• Indulgence

• Excommunication

• Mexica

The ruler of the Quechua people of the west coast of South America: the term is also applied to the Quechua people as a whole

• Inca

• Indulgence

• Mexica

• Mita

A document whose purchase was said to grant the bearer the forgiveness of sins

• Mexica

• Mita

• Quipu

• Indulgence

The name given to themselves by the Aztec people

• Mexica

• Mita

• Quipu

• Renaissance

A labor system used by Andean societies in which community members shared work owed to rulers and the religious community

• Quipu

• Renaissance

• Mita

• Protestant Reformation

A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records

• Quipu

• Renaissance

• Protestant Reformation

• Michelangelo

The revival of learning in Europe beginning about 1300 and continuing to about 1600

• Protestant Reformation

• Michelangelo

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Renaissance

A religious movement begun by Martin Luther in 1517 that attempted to reform the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; it resulted in the formation of new Christian denomination

• Vernacular

• Humanism

• Patron

• Protestant Reformation