AZTEC VOCAB

Question 1

glyphs

Answer 1

pictures or symbols used in writing

Question 2

omen

Answer 2

a sign that something is going to happen

Question 3

quetzal

Answer 3

a coloured bird that lives in the tropical rain forest of central and south america

Question 4

telpochcalli

Answer 4

Aztec school for commoners

Question 5

tribute

Answer 5

valuable gifts and taxes collected by the Aztecs from a specific group or city

Question 6

Tenochitlan

Answer 6

the place where the Aztecs called home

Question 7

causeway

Answer 7

a raised road or truck on the water

Question 8

Calmecac

Answer 8

the Aztec school for nobles

Question 9

calpolli

Answer 9

units of organization in Aztec society

Question 10

chinampa

Answer 10

floating islands built in the water around tenochitlan to grow crops

Question 11

compulsory

Answer 11

required by law

Question 12

Aqueduct

Answer 12

a channel used to move water, usually supported on a bridge when to cross a valley

Question 13

Aztec

Answer 13

the name given to a civilization created by a nomadic tribe

Question 14

Artisan

Answer 14

a skilled craft worker

Question 15

Tlaloc

Answer 15

-god of rain
-could unleash deadly floods and could hold rin for years causing drought
-was feared because he controlled life or death

Question 16

Quetcalcoltl

Answer 16

-god of wind
-left mexico after a fight with tezcatlipoca sailing on a raft of snake skins to the east
- the thought he would return the year one reed and bring the destruction of the Aztec empire

Question 17

Huitzilopochtli

Answer 17

-main god of the aztecs
-told the Aztecs to find a new land south
-they believed that he needed blood of sacrificail victims to defeat Tezcatlipoca everyday for the sun to rise
-locked in an internal struggle with tezcatlipoca for internity

Question 19

tezcatlipoca

Answer 19

-god of the sky
-most powerful
-locked in a internal struggle with Huitzilpouchtli

Question 20

spanish Inquisition

Answer 20

court system that non-catholics were tried on

Question 21

Reconquista

Answer 21

the Christian reconquest of Spain and muslims

Question 22

principalities

Answer 22

small areas often ruled by princes

Question 23

missionaries

Answer 23

people who travel to spread a religon

Question 24

caliphate

Answer 24

the area of jurisdiction of Ismalmic rule

Question 24

catastrophe

Answer 24

a massive disaster

Question 25

conquistador

Answer 25

the word that the Spanish used to describe the leader of an expidition to colonize other lands

Question 26

Creoles

Answer 26

descendants of Spanish settlers in mexico

Question 27

encomienda

Answer 27

a Spanish system that gave the spanish settlers land grants when the arrived in a colony

Question 28

epidemic

Answer 28

a disease that spreads rapidly and affects many individuals at the same time

Question 29

intermedairy

Answer 29

someone who acts as a translater between two groups of people

Question 30

Mayan

Answer 30

the language spoken by the Maya people

Question 31

Mestizo

Answer 31

a person of mixed race between Spanish and nd Aztec decent

Question 32

musket

Answer 32

long rifle like gun that was shot from the shoulder

Question 33

Nahuatl

Answer 33

The language spoken by the Aztecs

Question 34

Viceroy

Answer 34

the representative of a soverign in a foreign juristiction