Aztec Worldview
Aztec Society
Spanish Worldview
Spanish Society
Worlds Collide
100
In order to keep the sun rising and setting every day, the Aztecs believed they needed to do what?
What is, Perform Human Sacrifices
100
The city built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan.
What is Mexico City?
100
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
What is, Ethnocentrism
100
Name of the Spanish peninsula.
What is Iberian peninsula?
100
Which Spanish explorer confronted the Aztecs?
Who is, Hernan Cortes
200
What city was the high priest inspired to lead the nomadic tribes to?
What is, Tenochtitlan
200
What is a chinampa?
A floating farm that the Aztecs used to make more crops.
200
Ferdinand and Queen Isabella wanted to convert as many people as possible to Catholicism because they wanted to
Fulfil their responsibility to spread Christianity
200
This "time period" was marked by Christian re-capture of territories in the Iberian Peninsula that had been seized by Muslim kingdoms.
What is, The Reconquista
200
The holiday celebrated in Mexico that mirrors an Aztec religious holiday honoring loved ones who have died.
What is the Day of the Dead?
300
Conflict and battle were important to the Aztec culture not only as a means to gain new territory, but also because battles would allow for:
The capture of humans for sacrifice.
300
What was the sign that the Aztec were looking for from Huitzilopotchli?
An eagle, perched on a cactus, holding a rattlesnake.
300
The systematic torture and murder of unorthodox religions in Spain is called...?
The Spanish Inquisition
300
What phenomenon made the huge influx of silver and gold bad for Spain?
What is, Inflation
300
What disease played a major role in the destruction of the Aztecs?
What is, Smallpox
400
Who was the main God in the Aztec religion?
Who is, Huītzilōpōchtli
400
What were the two goals of the Aztecs during battle and war?
1) get tribute from other city-states
2) gain soldiers for human sacrifice
400
Hernan Cortes exemplified the qualities of what type of Spanish hero?
What is, The Conquistadors
400
Name of the King & Queen in charge of starting the Spanish Inquisition and creating a "Christian" Spain.
Who is, King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
400
Who was the emperor killed by the Spanish?
Who is, Moctezuma
500
A culture is considered this when they believe in multiple gods
What is, polytheism / polytheistic.
Bonus: What is the term for worshipping 1 god?
500
Why did the Aztecs practice human sacrifice?
To appease their gods
500
What religion was dominant in Spain before the Conquistadors took over?
What is, Islam
500
The name given to the children and descendants of Spanish and Indigenous parents.
What is Mestizo?
500
At the time of the conflict between the Aztecs and Spanish, the worldviews of the two societies could both be described as being based upon
expansion through the conquest of others