Aztecs

Question 0

When/where did they migrate?

Answer 0

They migrated south around the 1100s.

Question 1

Who were the first Aztecs?

Answer 1

Farmers from northern mexico

Question 2

What did they find out when they arrived in central Mexico?

Answer 2

They found out that other tribes had taken all the good farmland.

Question 3

What effect did war have on the aztecs?

Answer 3

Ar was a key factor in the aztecs’ rise to power

Question 4

What was left for the aztecs?

Answer 4

A swampy island in the middle of lake Texcoco

Question 5

What did the aztecs do to survive?

Answer 5

They hired themselves out as skilled fighters

Question 6

What did the aztecs do to build their empire?

Answer 6

They conquered many towns and made alliances.

Question 7

When did the aztects build a secret alliance with two other cities

Answer 7

1420s

Question 8

Where were the two cities that the aztects made secret alliances with from?

Answer 8

Lake Texacoco

Question 9

What did they do to ppl they conquered

Answer 9

They made the ppl they conquered pay tribute

Question 10

What were some things the conquered ppl payed tribute with?

Answer 10

Cotton, gold, food.

Question 11

Did the aztecs control a trade network?

Answer 11

Yes a huge one.

Question 12

What did the emperors use merchants as?

Answer 12

Spies

Question 13

When did they rule the most powerful state in mesoamerica

Answer 13

Early 1500s

Question 14

What was the most powerful and wealthy place?

Answer 14

Their capital, Tenochtitlan

Question 15

Why was travel and trade difficult?

Answer 15

Because of the city’s island location

Question 16

What made it easier to get to and from their city?

Answer 16

Causeways

Question 17

What are causways?

Answer 17

Raised roads across water or wet ground

Question 18

What were causeways made out of?

Answer 18

Rocks covered with dirt

Question 19

What was Tenochtitlan surrounded by?

Answer 19

Undrinkable water

Question 20

What did they do to bring fresh water to the city?

Answer 20

They built a stone aqueduct.

Question 21

What is an aqueduct

Answer 21

A channel

Question 22

What were chinampas

Answer 22

Floating gardens built to create more land for farming.

Question 23

About how many ppl lived in Tenochtitlan?

Answer 23

200,000

Question 24

Who arrived into the Americas

Answer 24

The spanish

Question 25

When did the spanish arrive?

Answer 25

Late 1400s

Question 26

What are conquistadors

Answer 26

The soldiers

Question 27

Why did the conquistadors come

Answer 27

To explore new lands, search for gold, spread catholic religion

Question 28

When did a small group of conquistadors reach mexico

Answer 28

1519

Question 29

Who was this small group of conquistadors led by?

Answer 29

Hernán Cortés

Question 30

Who believed cortes to be a god?

Answer 30

Moctezuma II

Question 31

What god was supposed to return to mexico in 1519

Answer 31

Quetzalcoatl

Question 32

1521 who conquered tenochtitlan?

Answer 32

Cortes and his men

Question 33

Causes of the defeat of the Aztecs?

Answer 33

Alliances, weapons and horses, geography, disease.

Question 34

Social class pyramid?

Answer 34

Kings
Nobles
Priests 
Warriors
Merchants

Question 35

What is a capulli

Answer 35

A community of families that shared land, schools, and a temple.

Question 36

What is another name for an ancient book of historical records?

Answer 36

Codex