Study Midterm Flashcards

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Hochelaga

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  • major St Lawrence Iroquoian villaged discovered at Maisonneuve and Metcalfe
  • famously described in Jacques Cartiers early writings
  • found at the “Dawson Site” under McGill University
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Dawson Site*

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  • an archeological site/dig of which evidence of Cartier’s Hochelaga was found
  • on McGill campus, at Metcalfe and Maisonneuve
  • founded by McGill’s president Dawson at the time
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Tawantinsuyu

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  • the Inca state, south of Anahuac (Peru)
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Altepetl

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= Nahuatl name for/ type of community organization - close to what we know as independent city-state
- ruled by a tlatoani (“the one who speaks”)
- the most crucial building block of Nahua society
- each one has a civic god

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Huaca**

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Chimalpahin

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  • indigenous elite / go-between in the Republica de los indios, shows how these figures and their multilingual capabilities and authoritative positions made them indispensable
  • writes for nahua, weaving christian notions with nahua ones –> providing an indigenous historcial perspective complete with the critique of spanish
  • shows how religion is a key source of idiology and legal thinking to justify empire
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Guaman Poma de Ayala

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  • another indigenous elite / go-between
  • writing critiquing spanish excess (letter to Charles III)
  • he roundly condemned requerimiento
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Tenochtitlán

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  • capital of Mexica, present-day Mexico city
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República de los indios

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  • the second ruling sphere for the remaining indigenous population in Tenochtitlan
  • mexico city riot (1692) marks the end of this rule
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Encomienda

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  • beginning of labour extractive colonialism
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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Endonym

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Kalinago

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Triple Alliance

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Kalinago Treaty of 1660

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Florentine Codex

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Visita de Idolatría**

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Juan Santos Atahualpa / Atawallpa***

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