Chapter 7- Aztecs

Question 1

Who was the god of the Aztecs

Answer 1

Huitzilopichti

Question 2

What did Huitzilopichti command the people to do?

Answer 2

He told them to look for an eagle perching on a cactus that’s where they should settle and build a great city

Question 3

How long did the Aztecs look for the catus and the eagle

Answer 3

Over 150 years they found it in the valley of Mexico in 1325

Question 4

What did the land look like

Answer 4

On a complicated land the ass text could find was a swampy island and end of a broad lake it had print three water and a mild climate

Question 5

Aztecs

Answer 5

The term as texts are referring to the soup Eli Seshan created by Normac tribe the next car during the 15th century

Question 6

What did the mountains mean for the Aztecs

Answer 6

The mountains was more than a physical site they believed it was a sacred or holy site because they were closer to their gods, the places the Aztecs found was surronded by mountains

Question 7

How did the mountains cause prombkems

Answer 7

The mountains protected the ass text but also called step problems for them. Because mountains was so steep rainstorms can cause fat floods after a great flood swamped but not teach no they had to rebuild it and earthen dam across the lake to the east city

Question 8

What was highly valued in art in the Aztecs

Answer 8

Poetry was nightly valued. By creating poetry Aztecs felt that they were imitataing there gods

Question 9

What was the lake surrounding trnovhitikan and how did it help with safety

Answer 9

Lake texcoco

The Aztecs builted three causeaways linking the lake to the main lake then bridges that contected the causeways to the city they would burn the bridges to ortect the city from invasion

Question 10

What were the “floating islands” called and what was there purpose

Answer 10

Chibampa is what they build in water they would build it and then grow plants on it

Question 11

Why is Mexico City sinking

Answer 11

Because they use the water underneath the island which is causeing it to sink

Question 12

What did the Aztec believe about their gods

Answer 12

They believed that they controlled everything about how they lifed

Question 13

What are the four main gods of the Aztecs people and what did they do

Answer 13

Huitzilopochti warlike god

Tezcarlipoca the most powerful

Quetzalcoatl the god of wind

Tlaloc the god of rain

Question 14

What were the Aztecs calendars

Answer 14

They were called sun stones they had tonatuuh a god in the middle then the four previous creations of the world around the god had on the end the 20 days of the month

Question 15

What two calendars did they have and why were they so important

Answer 15

A solar calendar was carved in the mid 1400s

The sacred calendar was 260 days long and it two the calendar 52 years to catch up with the solar calendar

Question 16

Why did the Aztec sacrifice humans

Answer 16

They believed it was a deeply religious significance to be sacrificed it was the strongest expression of their devotion to the gods they believed the victims blood actually nourished the gods and without they would get sick and die

Question 17

Why was war important to the Aztecs

Answer 17

It was important because they could capture people to sacrifice

Question 18

Where do they believe tenochtitlan was

Answer 18

They believed it was in the centre of the world. The city was divided into four sections the four directions right in the middle was a large square which contained many temples the temples looked like moutains

Question 19

How did they expand through trade

Answer 19

They would trade lots of animals thing since they didn’t have many of them and would trade foods

Question 20

How did they expand through war

Answer 20

They controlled a larger empire then may in the North America they did this by believing they were better then anything else

Question 21

How were they a warrior society

Answer 21

As soon as a baby boy was born they would place a tiny bow and shield in hi am Hand this symbolized his commitment to pretext the Aztec people they required all men to serve in the milary

Question 22

How did the Aztecs profit in wars were not

Answer 22

Once the Aztecs conquers another group they collected tribute or valuable gifts or taxes