Grade 8 Aztecs Final

Question 1

What was a caliphate?

Answer 1

The area of jurisdiction of Islamic rulers

Question 2

What was the reconquista?

Answer 2

The Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims

Question 3

What is monotheism?

Answer 3

The belief in only one God

Question 4

What is polytheism

Answer 4

The belief in multiple gods

Question 5

What is a mosque

Answer 5

A sacred place of worship in the Muslim faith

Question 6

What is a Hadith

Answer 6

A well known Muslim saying

Question 7

What are principalities

Answer 7

Small areas ruled by princes

Question 8

What is a martyr

Answer 8

A person who dies or is willing to die for their beliefs or convictions

Question 9

What is a hidalgo?

Answer 9

The sons of poor nobles

Question 10

What is a Conquistador

Answer 10

The word that is used to describe the leader of an expedition to colonize other lands

Question 11

What is an Epidemic

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What is an intermediary

Answer 12

Someone who acts as a go-between or mediator between two people or groups of people

Question 13

What is a halberd

Answer 13

A weapon over two meters long that resembled a spear with an axe blade, a spear point and a hook

Question 14

What were reasons that the Spanish wanted to go on voyages of exploration?

Answer 14

Wealth for Spain, gold and glory, gaining personal wealth

Question 15

What was the Spanish worldview

Answer 15

The Spanish people’s worldview included things like; they believed that they should spread their religion to everyone and that everyone should be catholic. They thought that the more land you had the more powerful you were. “La geographia manda” (geography controls everything). They also thought wealth was very important.

Question 16

How were the worldviews of the Spanish and the Aztecs similar?

Answer 16

They were similar because they both thought that religion was very important. They were both power hungry and wanted to conquer other people’s

Question 17

What events lead up to the expulsion of Jewish people from Spain and the Spanish Inquisition

Answer 17

King Ferdinand and queen Isabella wanted to unite Spain under one religion. They took over the inquisition from the churc. It became a state run system where church officials put Muslims and Jews on trial, they were given a choice either be converted or exiled from Spain.

Question 18

What was the order of events at the battle of tenochtitlan

Answer 18

• Cortes taken to live in the palace
• moctezuma showed them the riches
• Spanish places moctezuma under house arrest
• stole gold
• Velazquez arrived on the coast
• Cortes left de Alvarado in charge
• he gave them permission to hold a festival but massacred them
• Cortes defeated Velazquez and returned with tenochtitlan in uproar
• moctezuma tried to calm the people but they stoned him
• moctezuma died
• Aztecs drove Spanish out
• smallpox killed 25% of Aztecs
• Cortes cut the aqueducts
• Aztecs were defeated
• spanish tore down the city and built a new one

Question 19

What actions did Moctezuma decide to take him on hearing that the Spanish were approaching Tenochtitilan?

Answer 19

As the Spanish approached he waited and thought about what to mic resume allowed Cortez to enter Tenochtitilan when they arrived they exchange gifts and he welcome them with a speech

Question 20

What was the conquistadors formula, what was the main goal

Answer 20

1. And expedition would set out from a colony
2. They met peacefully there a guest to discover who is the most powerful
3. then they would seize the leader and threatened to kill him and less he obeyed their orders
4. If they had to fight they tried to go on open ground their weapons give them an advantage
5. the leader of the expedition would become governor and his second-in-command would set up another expedition
   * The goal of this was to peacefully The cheapest way to Concord, and the least amount of lives lost

Question 21

What were Cortez is made goals in going to Mexico?

Answer 21

He heard of a more advanced, wealthy civilization and he set up an expedition he wanted to become wealthy have lots of power had and make a need for himself

Question 22

What was the encomienda system and what was its main goal?

Answer 22

The end so me and a system was economic system where with each piece of land they were given a number of workers the main goal was to make a strong colony and to build a strong economy

Question 23

When did the Spanish destroy the Astec temples and codices why

Answer 23

They destroyed the courtesies and temples why the priest for converting the ass text to Catholicism they did this because they were placing the religion with the catholicism and they wanted to destroy all history of “other gods”

Question 24

What changes occurred to the Aztecs after the Spanish conquered Tenochtitilan why did the Spanish initiate changes?

Answer 24

As soon as the Aztecs surrendered the Spanish change the economic System today and so me and, with each piece of land a settler was given a number of Aztec slaves
-religion..?dont have answer

Question 25

What does the term mestizo and indefensible mean?

Answer 25

Mestizo: A person of mixed race of Spanish in Aztec decent
Indigenous: The native inhabitants of the land

Question 26

In the years before Mexico can independent what was the main cause of discontent in the Spanish colony?

Answer 26

They were under direct controll of Spain, they had to keep a steady flow of gold silver and farm products to pay for the kings wars they were making Spain wealthy put new Spain so I’ll put a shortage of road schools and housing

Question 27

What did the Aztecs believed made a strong citizen?

Answer 27

Citizens who are focussed and would contribute to society they possess these virtues

• courage ( cats)
• self sacrifice ( steal)
• modesty ( my)
• clean living ( candy)
• obedience ( onion rings)

Question 28

When The Spanish first encountered the indigenous people what part of the Aztec civilization most impressed them

Answer 28

The market and the gold and treasure

Question 29

What were the results of the Spanish reconquest of Spain from the Muslims

Answer 29

The Spanish created a new way of fighting they grouped a large amount of soldiers with the same weapon so no one could over run them as a result of the Spanish became the deadliest forcing Europe
2) Church officials but religious people other than Catholicism on trial they were given a choice to be converted or exiled after that Muslim and Jewish people live in fear

Question 30

Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella decide to support Columbus’s idea to travel west

Answer 30

They we’re in an economic downfall and they hope Columbus would bring back money strengthen economy

Question 31

Why did can Ferdinand and Queen Isabella proof further expeditions for Columbus?

Answer 31

They approved it because of the weather Columbus sent telling them of gold and many other riches for their country

Question 32

Why were the Spanish able to conquer the Aztec empire

Answer 32

Cortez had the power he entered with 200,000 people 400 Spaniards 6000 tlaxcalans

• modern weapons like swords and muskets -had horses which fascinated the Aztecs so they could sneak up on them
• brought disease that killed 25% of the Astec population

Question 33

What were Cortez’s actions from his arrival in his Hispaniola to his arrival at Tenochtitilan

Answer 33

Gosh

Question 34

Why would the Spanish destroy the Aztec calendar stones in temples

Answer 34

To destroy not only them but their history as people they were replacing their history with a new one