Aztec Geography & Origins
The specific sign from the god Huitzilopochtli.
What is an eagle perched on a cactus holding a rattlesnake?
Floating gardens used to expand land in Tenochtitlan.
What are chinampas?
The centuries-long struggle to retake Spain from Muslim rule.
What is the Reconquista?
The three main motives for the Spanish Empire.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
The group known as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica.
Who are the Olmec?
The swampy island city the Aztecs founded in Lake Texcoco.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The name for the Aztec nobility class.
What are the pipiltin?
The peninsula that Spain occupies 80% of.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
The religious court set up to ensure religious unity.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
The age or world the Aztecs believed they currently lived in.
What is the Fifth Sun?
How many years the Aztecs were semi-nomadic before settling.
What is 200 years?
Structures built to bring fresh water into the city.
What are aqueducts?
The mountain range that separates Spain from France.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
The legislative body (parliament) stripped of power by the Monarchy.
What is the Cortes?
The group considered masters of a "refined civilization."
Who are the Toltecs?
The largest lake in the Valley of Mexico (known for being saline).
What is Lake Texcoco?
The first Aztec leader who married a Culhua princess to claim Toltec lineage.
Who is Acamapichtli?
The southern city considered a major center of learning and the arts.
What is Cordoba (or Granada)?
The explorer who landed in the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Ancient cultures whose philosophy was revived by Muslim scholars.
What are Greek and Roman?
The original homeland the Aztecs left before migrating south.
What is Aztlan?
The second-in-command to the Emperor, responsible for internal affairs.
Who is the Chief of Internal Affairs?
The treeless, dry central plateau of Spain.
What is the Meseta Central?
The belief that one’s own culture is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
The artistic style influenced by the Moors; the first Spanish national art.
What is Mozarabic?