Geography
The country the Aztec lived in
What is Mexico?
The Aztecs believed in many gods, therefore they were..
What is Polytheistic?
These are floating water beds that revolutionized farming for Mesoamerica during this time.
What are Chinampas?
This social group:
Governed cities for the Ruler, collected taxes
Ran religious services, taught school
Commanded groups of soldiers
Who are priests?
The staple crop of the Aztec.
What is Maize?
The Aztecs built their city on this type of terrain where they built from the ground up and out using mud, rocks, and wood.
What is marsh/swampland?
A type of sacrifice that all empires took part in, the Aztec, being the most extreme and often.
What are human sacrifices?
The capital "City Center" of the Aztec where many, if not all, of the public activities would take place.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Rulers were seen as half-human half-god or..
What is Semi-Devine?
These were distance traders along with a side job of spy for the emperor.
The Aztec capital city was built on this lake.
What is Lake Texcoco?
This is where empires would perform religious rituals such as sacrifices.
What are pyramids/temples?
This was the cost of education in the Aztec civilization
What is free public education?
The lowest class on the pyramid, not born into.
Who are slaves?
The age which Women and Men would typically get married.
What is 16 and 20?
The Aztec three cities other than Tenochtitlan the Aztec inhabited
What is Tula, Tlacoplan, and Teotihuacan?
In the story about the Aztec girl, Xochitl, she described the monthly Festival being grand and wondrous. What were the names of the two groups of Aztec Warriors?
What are the Jaguar Knights and Eagle Knights?
Aztecs would use these as part of their medicine to cure sicknesses
What are herbs?
Who were advisors?
What people would bet on recreational games.
What are gold, feathers, and clothes?
According to legend, the Aztecs were told to build their city where they saw an eagle doing this on a cactus.
What is an eagle on a cactus eating a snake on a lake?
The type of religion surrounded around animals?
What is Animism?
The Aztec used these as their written language since they did not have a formal alphabet but rather things to represent sounds, ideas, and events.
What are pictographs or glyphs?
Along with priests, were taught to read and write.
Who were Nobles?
Why the marketplace was important. (What was done at marketplaces)
What is socialize and trade?