Test June2014

Question 0

What is the name of the lake where the Aztecs built their capital city Tenochtitlan?

Answer 0

Texcoco

Question 1

Did the Aztecs live in Central or South America?

Answer 1

Central America

Question 2

What did the Aztecs see that made them choose the site of Tenochtitlan?

Answer 2

They saw an eagle on a cactus. Believed to be a sign from the gods.

Question 3

The main god of the Aztecs was Huitzilopochtli, the god of what?

Answer 3

He was the god of war and the sun.

Question 4

Who was the conquistador who conquered the Aztecs?

Answer 4

Hernan Cortes

Question 5

In which year did he launch an expedition to Mexico?

Answer 5

1591

Question 6

Who was Moctezuma II?

Answer 6

He was the Aztec ruler. The king or ruler of the Aztecs.

Question 7

In which year were the Spanish forced to flee Tenochtitlan?

Answer 7

1520

Question 8

What helped the Spanish the most to defeat the Aztecs?

Answer 8

Disease and sickness

Smallpox

Question 9

In which year did the Spanish return to Tenochtitlan and defeat the Aztecs?

Answer 9

1521

Question 10

The Inca are also known as what?

Answer 10

‘The children of the sun’

Question 11

Did the Inca live in Central or South America?

Answer 11

South America.

Question 12

Who was the conquistador who conquered the Inca?

Answer 12

Francisco Pizarro

Question 13

How many voyages did Pizarro make to South America?

Answer 13

3

Question 14

In which years did Pizarro’s voyages occur?

Answer 14

1524
1526
1530

Question 15

Which was larger, the Aztec Empire or the Inca Empire?

Answer 15

The inca empire was larger

Question 16

What was the name of the capital city of the Inca?

Answer 16

Cuzco

Question 17

What was the main reason that the inca empire differed to the other mesoamerican civilisations?

Answer 17

The inca live high in the mountains, high altitude, Andes mountains

Question 18

What was the society of the inca based on?

Answer 18

Based on farming & trade within the empire and every citizen having a job and doing it

Question 19

Define explorer

Answer 19

A person who explores a new or unfamiliar area

Question 20

Define conquistador

Answer 20

A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

Question 21

Define conquer

Answer 21

Overcome and take control of a place or people, by military force

Question 22

Define colonise

Answer 22

Send settlers to a place and establish political control over it

Question 23

Define ritual sacrifice

Answer 23

The offering of foods, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose in particular divine beings. Ritual killing. The term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of cereal food or artefacts.

Question 24

What is a primary source

Answer 24

A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

Question 25

What San secondary source

Answer 25

Any source about an event, period, or issue in history that was produced after that event, period or issue has passed.

Question 26

Define corroborate

Answer 26

Confirm or give support to a statement, theory or finding

Question 27

Define contradict

Answer 27

Deny the truth of a statement by asserting the opposite

Question 28

What are the six questions you ask yourself when you look at a source?

Answer 28

1. Who
2. What
3. When
4. Where
5. Why
6. How

Question 29

What was the main reason that the inca empire differed to the other mesoamerican civilisations?

Answer 29

The inca live high in the mountains, high altitude, Andes mountains

Question 30

What was the society of the inca based on?

Answer 30

Based on farming & trade within the empire and every citizen having a job and doing it

Question 31

Define explorer

Answer 31

A person who explores a new or unfamiliar area

Question 32

Define conquistador

Answer 32

A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

Question 33

Define conquer

Answer 33

Overcome and take control of a place or people, by military force

Question 34

Define colonise

Answer 34

Send settlers to a place and establish political control over it

Question 35

Define ritual sacrifice

Answer 35

The offering of foods, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose in particular divine beings. Ritual killing. The term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of cereal food or artefacts.

Question 36

What is a primary source

Answer 36

A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

Question 37

What San secondary source

Answer 37

Any source about an event, period, or issue in history that was produced after that event, period or issue has passed.

Question 38

Define corroborate

Answer 38

Confirm or give support to a statement, theory or finding

Question 39

Define contradict

Answer 39

Deny the truth of a statement by asserting the opposite

Question 40

What are the six questions you ask yourself when you look at a source?

Answer 40

1. Who
2. What
3. When
4. Where
5. Why
6. How