Category 1: Aztec Society
What was the main staple food in the Aztec diet?
Answer: What is corn?
What did the Aztecs have in their homes to pray to the gods?
Answer: What are shrines?
What were the floating gardens of the Aztecs called?
Answer: What are chinampas?
What was the main food source for the Aztecs?
Fruits and Vegetables
What did the Aztec due for their warriors after battle?
Answer: What is they cleaned their wounds to prevent infection?
Who was allowed to wear colored clothes in Aztec society?
Answer: Who are the nobles and priests?
What was the main purpose of the Aztec human sacrifices?
Answer: What is to appease the gods?
What type of farming technique did the Aztecs use on mountain sides?
Answer: What is terrace farming?
How old did Aztec children have to be to attend the second school (Not for nobles), where they learned about their culture and jobs?
Answer: What is 15 years old?
If an Aztec was seen with a shaved head, he mostly likely had done what?
Answer: What is commit a crime?
What was the name of the Aztec capital city?
Answer: What is Tenochtitlán?
What type of religion did the Aztecs have?
Answer: Polytheistic or Pantheon
What were the Aztecs known for in terms of engineering?
Answer: What is floating gardens, causeways, and pyramids?
Clue: Which major event led to the Aztec Empire’s rapid expansion across Mesoamerica?
Answer: What is defeating the Tepanec and earning their freedom?
What was the Aztec ballgame similar to, and what were the rules?
Answer: What is a game played by throwing a ball through a hoop using only hips, elbows, and knees?
In Aztec culture, women who died in childbirth were given what type of death?
Answer: What is a warrior’s death?
What did the Aztec believe would happen if they didn't sacrifice people?
Answer: The sun would stop rising and cease to exist.
What was the Aztec’s unique weapon made from obsidian called?
Answer: What is a macahuitl?
What was the special nearby city to the capital?
Answer: What is Chichen Itza
How were the Aztec destroyed?
Answer: What is the Spanish conquered them?
What was the role of Aztec schools for nobles?
Answer: What is learning to govern and advanced skills?
How did the Aztec gods influence daily life?
Answer: What is they made important decisions for the people?
What technology was missing when the Aztec built all their amazing structures.
Answer: Beasts of Burden and the Wheel
What did the Aztecs do to punish people who committed major
Answer: What is execute them?
What was the significance of the eagle on the cactus in Aztec mythology?
Answer: What is it was the sign from the gods to build their city there?