AZTECS

Question 1

What evidence is there that indicates how important religion was in Aztec society?

Answer 1

THEIR TEMPLES, THEIR CODICES, THEIR ART AND THEIR WRITTEN RECORDS.

Question 1

The Aztec people left their home and wandered the desert for 150 years because

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

How did the Aztecs overcome the problem that their capital city was located on a small island with very little quality farm land?

Answer 2

THEY BUILT CHINAMPAS FOR FARMING.

Question 3

How did the Aztecs overcome the problem that the island where they located their capital city was on lake cut off from the mainland?

Answer 3

THEY BUILT FOUR ROADS IN AND OUT OF THE CITY.

Question 4

What was the Aztec solution to the fact that the mounts surrounding their capital city often produced flash floods during periods of heavy rain?

Answer 4

THEY BUILT MASSIVE EARTHEN DAMS.

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

THEY BUILT AQUEDUCTS

Question 6

How did the Aztecs expand their empire into one of the wealthiest and most powerful?

Answer 6

THEY FORMED DEFENSIVE AND TRADING ALLIANCES WITH NEIGHBOURS, THEY CAPTURED AND SACRIFICED THEIR ENEMIES, THEY ESTABLISHED A MASSIVE MARKET IN THE CITY

Question 7

How did the Aztec’s treat the peoples they conquered?

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

What was the name of the Aztec capital city

Answer 8

TENOCHTITLAN

Question 9

How was the Aztec capital city organized?

Answer 9

INTO FOUR SECTIONS

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

THEIR TEMPLES, THEIR ART, THEIR CODICES (WHICH LOOKED FAR INTO THE FUTURE) AND THEIR BELIEF IN OMENS/PROPHECIES.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

IMPERIALISM, WAR

Question 12

Original documents use by historians include items such as: letters, journals, ships logs, and diary entries are known as

Answer 12

PRIMARY SOURCES

Question 13

The Aztec concept of citizenship placed the highest value on the need for citizens to

Answer 13

BE EDUCATED, CONTRIBUTE TO THE EMPIRE, CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY, SERVE IN THE MILITARY,

Question 14

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

Answer 14

RECONQUISTA

Question 15

A major result of the Spanish reconquest of Spain from Muslim invaders was the creation of a Spanish society which

Answer 15

WERE CHRISTIAN, EMPHASISED EXPLORING, ATTEMPTED TO PUSH OUT OTHER RELIGIONS, BEGAN THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

THEY NEEDED LAND, MONEY, POWER AND A STRONG PRESENCE ON OCEAN TRADE ROUTES

Question 17

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

Answer 17

POTENTIAL WEALTH AND SLAVE POTENTIAL.

Question 18

The leader of the Spanish troops how conquered Tenochtitlan was

Answer 18

HERNAN CORTES

Question 19

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

Answer 19

NEITHER COUNTRY WAS ACCEPTING OF RELIOUS DIFFERENCES, BOTH WOULD KILL OR EXPEL ANYONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT

Question 20

When the Spanish under Cortes first encountered the indigenous people in Mexico, which feature of the Aztec Empire made the greatest impression upon them?

Answer 20

THEIR WEALTH, THEIR MILITARY, THEIR FEROCITY, THEIR BELIEFS

Question 21

The conquest and destruction of the Aztec Empire by a relatively small number of Spanish adventurers was most directly a result of the

Answer 21

SMALLPOX OUTBREAK, SUPERIOR FIREPOWER OF THE SPANISH, HORSES, CANNONS, SHIPS, ARMOUR, METAL WEAPONS

Question 22

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

Answer 22

CANNONS, DISEASES, METAL WEAPONS, ARMOUR

Question 23

The smallpox disease that spread rapidly and infected many Aztecs during the siege Tenochtitlan is knows as

Answer 23

SMALLPOX

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

HALBERD

Question 25

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?

Answer 25

SPAIN

Question 26

In the conflict between Moctezuma’s people and Corte’s people who had the advantage when it came to economic motivations?

Answer 26

CORTES HAD THE BACKING OF A MUCH WEALTHIER COUNTRY

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

A YOUNG WOMAN NAMED MALINCHE

Question 28

The Spanish word used to describe the leader of an expedition that literally mean “conqueror” was

Answer 28

CONQUISTADOR

Question 29

The demolition of the Aztec calendar stones and temples by the Spanish was a deliberate attempt to

Answer 29

ERASE THEIR RELIGION, DESTROY THEIR BELIEF SYSTEMS AND END THEIR CULTURE.

Question 30

The economy established in New Spain after the conquest of the Aztecs had the primary purpose of

Answer 30

TAKING THE WEALTH OF THE AZTECS AND SENDING IT TO SPAIN.

Question 31

In Mexico today the largest ethnic group is made up of peoples of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. What are these people called?

Answer 31

MEXICANS

Question 32

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?

Answer 32

CODICES