Daily Life
What crop was the staple food of the Aztecs?
What is maize?
Who was the Aztec god of the sun and war?
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
What was the title of the Aztec emperor?
What is the Tlatoani?
What weapon, a wooden club with obsidian blades, was commonly used by Aztec warriors?
What is a macuahuitl?
What modern-day country was the heart of the Aztec Empire?
What is Mexico?
What were the floating gardens the Aztecs used for agriculture called?
What are chinampas?
What was the Aztec calendar stone called?What was the Aztec calendar stone called?
What is the Sun Stone?
What was the name of the alliance that the Aztec Empire formed with two other city-states
What is the Triple Alliance?
What was the purpose of capturing enemies in battle?
What is for human sacrifice?
What writing system did the Aztecs use?
What are pictographs?
What was the name of the Aztec market in Tenochtitlan?
What is Tlatelolco?
Which feathered serpent deity was associated with wind and knowledge?
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
What group collected tribute from conquered regions?
Who are the calpixques?
What elite warrior society wore jaguar pelts in battle?
Who are the Jaguar Warriors?
What European country eventually conquered the Aztecs?
What is Spain?
What did Aztec children attend school to learn?
What are religion, history, and warfare?
What major ceremony involved human sacrifices to ensure the sun would rise?
What is the New Fire Ceremony?
What was the Aztec capital city built on a lake?
What is Tenochtitlan?
What was the main goal of the Aztec "Flower Wars"?
What is to capture prisoners for sacrifice?
What disease significantly weakened the Aztec population during the conquest?
What is smallpox?
What beverage made from cacao was a favorite of the Aztec elite?
What is chocolate?
How many levels of the underworld (Mictlan) did the dead have to pass through?
What are nine?
What was the social class of commoners and farmers called?
What are macehualtin?
What training school prepared young Aztecs for military service?
What is the telpochcalli?
What was the year traditionally associated with the fall of Tenochtitlan?
What is 1521?