Where did the Aztec Empire start?
  • Peru
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Brazil
Name the lake on which Tenochtitlan is located.
  • Lake Tapioca
  • Lake Mexico
  • Lake Texcoco
  • Lake Texico
Who stayed in Mexico before the Aztecs?
  • Toltecs
  • Incas
  • Mayans
  • Conquistadors
What was the currency of the Aztecs?
  • Gold coins
  • Dirhams
  • Rupee
  • Chocolate
What was the language of the Aztecs called?
  • English
  • Mayan
  • Nahuatl
  • Spanish
How does Mexico get its name?
  • The people worshipped a local God named 'Mexico.'
  • The people called themselves 'Mexica,'
  • The conquistadors named the land 'Mexico.'
  • The Aztecs built a pyramid called 'Mexica.'
Where did the Aztecs come from?
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  • South America
  • Deserts of Northern Mexico
  • Yucatan Peninsula
The Aztecs were a nomadic tribe until they settled on Lake Texcoco. What does nomadic mean?
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  • They ate humans
  • they traveled around
  • they were lazy
The Aztecs settled where they saw:
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  • A bird on a wire
  • A Gopher eating a turtle
  • An eagle on a cactus
The Aztecs settled on a lake called:
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  • Lake Texcoco
  • Lake of the Aztec
  • Land o Lakes
The Aztecs believed in human sacrifice because:
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  • They were evil
  • they believed it would please their gods
  • they hated blood
The Aztecs were feared warriors and built a great empire by:
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  • being kind to everyone
  • conquering many tribes
  • giving gifts to others
The Aztecs made the people they conquered pay Tribute. What was that?
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  • attention at all times
  • gifts of jewels, gold , and valuables
  • show honor with marches
The Aztecs built Chinampas. What were they?
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  • Mexica food
  • floating gardens
  • pyramids
Who was the Spanish explorer that arrived in 1519?
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  • Cortez
  • Pizzaro
  • Marc Anthony
A form of writing that the Aztecs used which included pictures:
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  • alphabet
  • hieroglyphs
  • sketches
The advantage of having their city built on a lake was: 
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  • protection from enemies
  • a source of water for crops
  • bathing and washing
  • all of the above
The Aztec built causeways around their city. What are those?
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  • race tracks
  • floating docks to walk on
  • fences
The Aztec were very artistic and made drawings of:
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  • Important events
  • religious gods
  • nature
  • all of the above
Cortez encountered a rival tribe called the Taxcallan when he arrived in Mexico. How did they play a role in the conquering of the Aztec?
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  • They provided the weapons
  • they told the Aztecs the Spanish were coming
  • They formed an alliance with the Spanish against their Aztec enemies
What did the Spanish want from the Aztecs?
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  • Gold and riches
  • convert them to Christianity
  • claim the land for Spain
  • all of the above
The Spanish used a powerful weapon against the Aztecs without fighting at all. What was it?
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  • disease
  • cannon
  • scary masks
The Spanish used a great strategy against the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. What was it?
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  • fireballs
  • a siege of the city
  • rushed the causeways
The Spanish were able to defeat the Aztecs due to:
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  • superior weapons
  • disease
  • help from a rival tribe
  • all of the above
After the Spanish conquered the Aztecs the named the conquered land:
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  • New Mexica
  • New Spain
  • New Aztec
The conquered city of Tenochtitlan is now the modern day city of:
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  • Valdez
  • Cortez City
  • Mexico City
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
  • the Feathered Serpent, was the god of the bird Quetzal.
  • the Feathered Serpent, was the god of music, education, farming, and art. The Aztecs believed that he would someday come back to Earth. His return would mean the end of the Aztec peoples.
How did Aztecs keep their gods satisfied?
  • By offering human sacrifices so the gods would feed themselves with the victims’ hearts and blood.
  • By offering them gold, cacao, jewels and arts.
Where did the Sun god (Tonatiuh) tell the Aztec people to settle?
  • Where they found a lot of water to survive.
  • Where they found an eagle on a cactus eating a snake.
Where did the Aztecs finally settle?
  • By Lake Texcoco in Tenochtitlan. Then they called themselves Mexicas.
  • In Aztlan, which means Aztec.
What is a codex?
  • An alphabet.
  • A group of glyphs drew by Aztecs, they show how this civilization was.
Tenochtitlan was bigger, safe and easy to defend because it had:
  • water on all sides, just 3 connecting cause ways, chinampas, and aqueducts.
  • big walls around that protected them.
The Great Temple is:
  • the largest temple where Chac Mool was, it is in the center of Tenochtitlan.
  • Moctezuma's Palace
The Great temple is dedicated to:
  • Quetzalcoatl (the Feathered Serpent), god of art, education and farming.
  • the war god Huitzilopochtli and the rain god Tlaloc.
How many times was the Great Temple rebuilt?
  • 7 because there were 7 rulers.
  • 7 because it was not well built.
Aztecs had 2 calendars.
  • The Solar Calendar worked with 2 wheels and had 13 months and 20 days, The Sacred Calendar had 365 days and it was used to figure out when to plant and harvest crops.
  • The Sacred Calendar worked with 2 wheels and had 13 months and 20 days, The Solar Calendar had 365 days and it was used to figure out when to plant and harvest crops.
Important celebrations for the Aztec were:
  • the opening of a new temple, welcoming warriors back from a victory, the death of a ruler or the rise of a new one, religious rituals, the birth and naming of a baby, entering and leaving school, marriage, and death.
  • only for nobles, kings and warriors and they only celebrate when they got a new ruler or when they won a fight.
Games Aztec played were:
  • ball game called Tlachtli and Patolli a gambling game. Only rich people could gamble.
  • ball game called Tlachtli and Patolli a gambling game. Everybody could play.
Aztec :
  • girls married by force at about 12 years old, people put make up, danced, played music instruments and did art crafts.
  • girls married by force at about 18 years old, girls put make up, danced, boys played music instruments and did art crafts.
Warning symbols that happened and represented danger were:
  • a comet in the sky, a temple burning, a bird with a mirror.
  • big houses moving on the water, warriors riding demons.
Spanish explorer and conqueror that landed in Tenochtitlan in 1519, just as the 52-year cycle was ending. He wanted gold for himself and Spain. To earn riches and the support of the King of Spain, he planned to conquer the Aztec empire.
  • King Charles V
  • Hernan Cortés
How did the Aztec civilization end?
  • When Moctezuma died, they didn't have a leader so they went away to other lands.
  • By the Spanish conquer, so Aztecs starved to death or got sick with European diseases.
Every soldier hoped to enter the special fighting forces known as:
  • Jaguar or Eagle warriors.
  • Gold or Cacao warriors.
In the Aztec Civilization you could find:
  • paper, the after-life, rivers, sarcophaguses and gladiators.
  • precious feathers, jaguar skins, maize, beans, cacao, gold, turquoise, or jade.
It was built on top of what was once Tenochtitlan.
  • Mexico City.
  • Guatemala
The largest collection of Aztec artifacts is in the:
  • National Museum of Anthropology in Vienna Austria
  • National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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