Food
Sauces used to season Mexican food.
What is a mole (mo-lay)?
The southernmost country in North America.
What is Mexico?
This began in the sixteenth century and lasted for over 300 years.
What is the Spanish conquest?
They built their capital city, Tenochtitlan.
Who are the Aztec?
Tribes came from here then migrated south to settle in Mexico.
What is Siberia and Mongolia?
Where the word mole comes from.
What is the Aztec word molli.
Mexico lies to the north of this region.
What is Central America?
The year Mexicans rebelled against Spanish control.
What is 1810?
Their religion was based on nature gods, such as the sun, moon, rain and corn.
What is the Maya?
The early peoples of Mexico did not farm but survived by doing this.
What is hunting and gathering?
The Aztec word molli means this.
What is sauce or stew?
A body of land surrounded on 3 sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
The first known society in Mexico, known for their large carved stone heads.
What is the Olmec?
He was the Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztec.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Many tourists visit the Mayan temple here.
What is Chichen-Itza?
A poblano mole is special because of this ingredient.
What is chocolate?
The longest river in Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This ancient Indian civilization is known for building temples and pyramids.
What are the Maya?
These people were also called Mexica.
What is the Aztec?
The country with the most Spanish speakers.
What is Mexico?
The reason moles were originally created.
What is to make a meal fit for a dignitary (important political person)?
The major mountain range in Mexico.
What is the Sierra Madre?
The civilization famous for mathematics and calendar making.
What is the Maya?
The ninth emperor of the Aztec, he was imprisoned by Cortes.
Who was Montezuma?
The Pyramid of Kulkulkan is also known as this.
What is Quetzalcoatl?