Geography
The region that the Aztecs lived in
What is central Mexico?
The type of belief they had
What is polytheistic?
The type of government they had
What is hierarchical?
The main crop
What is maize/corn?
Their writing system that consisted of symbols
What are hieroglyphs?
The name of the lake they lived by
What is Lake Texcoco?
Worlds that they believed in
What is heaven and underworld?
The center of Aztec power
What is Tenochitlan?
The method they used for farming
What is slash and burn?
Floating gardens were also known as
What are chinampas?
The name of the valley that they lived in
What is the Mississippi River Valley?
What they did to honor the gods
What is building structures and sacrifice?
All children went to school (true or false)
What is true?
The houses that were made of logs and clay
What are adobe houses?
A road over swampy land
What is a cause way?
The main city that the Aztecs lived in
What is Tenohtitlan?
What they did to make the sun rise each day
What is daily ritual and blood sacrifice?
The council of four
What are the military leaders?
These were used to put buildings on top of
What are platforms?
Time period
What was 1200 CE - 1520?
The amount of people that lived there
What is 5,000,000 people?
The god that represented life and wind
Who is Quetzacoatl?
The four ranks of their social structure
1) emperors
2) priests
3) nobles
4) serfs/slaves
All the key crops they grew
What are avocados, corn, tomatoes, chili peppers, squash, and cocoa
9th and last emperor in the Aztec civilization
Who is Montezuma ll?