AZTECS Flashcards
What evidence is there that indicates how important religion was in Aztec society?
THEIR TEMPLES, THEIR CODICES, THEIR ART AND THEIR WRITTEN RECORDS.
The Aztec people left their home and wandered the desert for 150 years because
THEIR GOD TOLD THEM TO. THEY WERE TOLD THEY WOULD FIND AN EAGLE ON A CACTUS ON A ROCK. THEY WERE ORDERED TO BUILD A NEW CITY.
How did the Aztecs overcome the problem that their capital city was located on a small island with very little quality farm land?
THEY BUILT CHINAMPAS FOR FARMING.
How did the Aztecs overcome the problem that the island where they located their capital city was on lake cut off from the mainland?
THEY BUILT FOUR ROADS IN AND OUT OF THE CITY.
What was the Aztec solution to the fact that the mounts surrounding their capital city often produced flash floods during periods of heavy rain?
THEY BUILT MASSIVE EARTHEN DAMS.
The lake that surrounded the Aztec capital was swampy and salty and therefore not suitable for drinking water. What did the Aztecs do to overcome this problem?
THEY BUILT AQUEDUCTS
How did the Aztecs expand their empire into one of the wealthiest and most powerful?
THEY FORMED DEFENSIVE AND TRADING ALLIANCES WITH NEIGHBOURS, THEY CAPTURED AND SACRIFICED THEIR ENEMIES, THEY ESTABLISHED A MASSIVE MARKET IN THE CITY
How did the Aztec’s treat the peoples they conquered?
CAPTIVES WERE USED AS SACRIFICE FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES. MANY CAPTIVES WERE KEPT AS SLAVES AND WERE GIVEN A NUMBER OF RIGHTS TO MAKE THEIR LIVES COMFORTABLE.
What was the name of the Aztec capital city
TENOCHTITLAN
How was the Aztec capital city organized?
INTO FOUR SECTIONS
What evidence is there that the Aztec’s believed their gods had an important role for them to play in the world? They felt that they had been chosen by their goods as a special people.
THEIR TEMPLES, THEIR ART, THEIR CODICES (WHICH LOOKED FAR INTO THE FUTURE) AND THEIR BELIEF IN OMENS/PROPHECIES.
At the time of the conflict between the Aztecs and Spanish in 1519, the worldviews of the two societies could both be described as being based upon
IMPERIALISM, WAR
Original documents use by historians include items such as: letters, journals, ships logs, and diary entries are known as
PRIMARY SOURCES
The Aztec concept of citizenship placed the highest value on the need for citizens to
BE EDUCATED, CONTRIBUTE TO THE EMPIRE, CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY, SERVE IN THE MILITARY,
The term used to describe the battles between Christians and Muslims that resulted in a Christian Monarch ruling Spain in the early 1300s was known as the
RECONQUISTA
A major result of the Spanish reconquest of Spain from Muslim invaders was the creation of a Spanish society which
WERE CHRISTIAN, EMPHASISED EXPLORING, ATTEMPTED TO PUSH OUT OTHER RELIGIONS, BEGAN THE SPANISH INQUISITION
Three of the following are factors which led King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to decide to support the venture proposed by Columbus. Choose the exception.
THEY NEEDED LAND, MONEY, POWER AND A STRONG PRESENCE ON OCEAN TRADE ROUTES
The most convincing evidence that could be used to identify the motives of Ferdinand and Isabella in supporting Columbus would be that, when Columbus returned from the New World, in his reports to the King and Queen he emphasized the
POTENTIAL WEALTH AND SLAVE POTENTIAL.
The leader of the Spanish troops how conquered Tenochtitlan was
HERNAN CORTES
From the perspective of the modern Canadian worldview, the Aztec practice of human sacrifice and the use of the Inquisition by the Spanish Church could both be used as evidence to suggest that
NEITHER COUNTRY WAS ACCEPTING OF RELIOUS DIFFERENCES, BOTH WOULD KILL OR EXPEL ANYONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT
When the Spanish under Cortes first encountered the indigenous people in Mexico, which feature of the Aztec Empire made the greatest impression upon them?
THEIR WEALTH, THEIR MILITARY, THEIR FEROCITY, THEIR BELIEFS
The conquest and destruction of the Aztec Empire by a relatively small number of Spanish adventurers was most directly a result of the
SMALLPOX OUTBREAK, SUPERIOR FIREPOWER OF THE SPANISH, HORSES, CANNONS, SHIPS, ARMOUR, METAL WEAPONS
The military advantage which proved the most useful to the Spanish invaders in the conquest of the Aztecs could best be described as being the
CANNONS, DISEASES, METAL WEAPONS, ARMOUR
The smallpox disease that spread rapidly and infected many Aztecs during the siege Tenochtitlan is knows as
SMALLPOX
In many was the Spanish ability to work with metal allowed them to produce more advanced weapons. One of their weapons resembled a spear with an axe bland and steel point. What was this weapon called?
HALBERD
When Cortes arrived in 1519 it seems inevitable that conflict would occur sooner or later. Which nation would geography favor when this conflict final occurred?
SPAIN
In the conflict between Moctezuma’s people and Corte’s people who had the advantage when it came to economic motivations?
CORTES HAD THE BACKING OF A MUCH WEALTHIER COUNTRY
In order to be successful Cortes made alliances with several local people. Who acted as an intermediary between Cortes and the indigenous peoples he met?
A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED MALINCHE
The Spanish word used to describe the leader of an expedition that literally mean “conqueror” was
CONQUISTADOR
The demolition of the Aztec calendar stones and temples by the Spanish was a deliberate attempt to
ERASE THEIR RELIGION, DESTROY THEIR BELIEF SYSTEMS AND END THEIR CULTURE.
The economy established in New Spain after the conquest of the Aztecs had the primary purpose of
TAKING THE WEALTH OF THE AZTECS AND SENDING IT TO SPAIN.
In Mexico today the largest ethnic group is made up of peoples of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. What are these people called?
MEXICANS
The Franciscan missionaries ordered the destruction of the Aztec temples and the burning of religious documents. What were the document that contained the religious writings called?
CODICES
