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Question 1

“A thing like a ball of stone comes out of its entrails: it comes out shooting sparks and raining fire. . . . If it is aimed against a tree, it shatters the tree into splinters. This is a most unnatural sight, as if the tree had exploded from within.
They dress in iron. . . . Their deer carry them on their back wherever they wish to go. These deer, our lord, are as tall as the roof of a house.”
—from The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, 1959
DBQ IDENTIFYING What do you think the Aztec are seeing for the first time?

Answer 1

A cannon and soldiers on horseback. From the description given by the Aztecs, it is likely that what they are seeing for the first time is a cannon and soldiers riding on horseback.

Question 2

Education

Answer 2

the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction

Question 3

History

Answer 3

the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies

Question 5

Innate

Answer 5

inborn; natural.

Question 6

Diversity

Answer 6

the state of being diverse; variety

Question 7

Olmec, Mayan and Aztecs Empires What were they remembered for:

Answer 7

first Mesoamerican complex societies,

Question 8

Bering Strait

Answer 8

The Bering Strait is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans

Question 9

Geography

Answer 9

the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere

Question 10

Meso-America (current day)

Answer 10

Middle America

Question 11

Aztlan

Answer 11

ancestral home of the Aztecs

Question 12

Tenochtitlan – What Current City

Answer 12

Mexico City

Question 13

Astrolabe

Answer 13

handheld model of the universe

Question 14

Circumnavigate

Answer 14

sail or travel all the way around

Question 15

Know the order of the Empires and what they are known for:

Answer 15

Mayans: astronomy, calendar systems, and hieroglyphic writing.

Olmecs: Statues

Aztecs: great Mesoamerican culture

Question 16

Mercantilism define:

Answer 16

benefits of profitable trading

Question 17

Hernan Cortes

Answer 17

claimed Mexico on behalf of Spain

Question 18

Montezuma what Empire

Answer 18

Aztecs

Question 19

Cabot

Answer 19

laying the groundwork for British land claims in Canada

Question 20

Commodities Define

Answer 20

goods

Question 21

The Great Migration

Answer 21

was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast