Legacy of the Aztec Empire

Question 1

How did they use their tributes

Answer 1

slavery and ritual human sacrifices, which they believed prevented the apocalypse

Question 2

What was different about the Aztecs human sacrifices compared to other civilizations?

Answer 2

the included sacrifice into everyday life, as well as its scale (several thousand in a 1-4 day period)

Question 3

What mesoamerican culture features did the Aztecs also have?

Answer 3

step pyramids, blood rituals, and ball sports

Question 4

What was one of the Aztecs rulers that the empire flourished under?

Answer 4

Montezuma 2nd

Question 5

When did the empire stop flourishing

Answer 5

the introduction of European diseases in the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as internal power disputes & rebellions from conquered Mesoamericans

Question 6

How were the Spanish able to defeat the Aztecs despite their being largely outnumbered?

Answer 6

the weakening of Aztec numbers (through European disease) and conquered native American tribes who wished to topple their brutal Aztec overlords