Job Speciliztion
What is one of the jobs that the Aztec had?
Answers: farmer, artisans, priests, healers, scribes, merchants
Name one of the social classes
Answers: Pipiltin, Macehualtin, mayques, tlacotin (slaves)
What is one ritual the Aztecs had?
Answers: Human sacrifices and the Aztec calendar
What is one monumental architecture the Aztecs had?
Answers: temples, plazas, pyramids, ball courts
What language did the Aztec use?
Answer: Nahuatl language
What were one of the things that merchants solds?
Answers: gold, silver, turquoise, animal skins, clothing, pottery, chocolate, vanilla, tools, and enslaved people.
Name one of the 'jobs' the Piplitin had (where they worked, ranks, etc)
Answers: They worked in the Aztec government, were high priests in the Aztec religion, and held the highest ranks in the Aztec military
What was the Quetzalcoatl?
Answer: A type of serpent god
What were ball courts used for?
Answer: playing ceremonial games
Where was the Aztec empire located?
Answer: Central Mexico
What did the more experienced artisans focus more on?
Answers: stone craving and feather working
which class made the largest group in the Aztec?
Answer: the Macehualtin
Name one god the Aztec had (either using its name or what god it was of)
Answers: Huitzilopochtli (god of war), Tonatiuh (god of sun), Tlaloc (god of rain)
What temple did the Aztecs have?
Answer: The Great Temple
What type of government did the Aztec have?
Answer: Hierarchical government
What were priests trained in?
Answers: astronomy and cosmos
What type of work did the Mayques do?
Answers: labor work like hard labor on farms, building and maintaining temples, and the houses of nobles.
How many sacred days are in the Aztec calendar?
Answer: 260
From what years did the Aztec last?
Answer: 1428 - 1519 C.E
What is the intensive method of gardening that farmers used called?
Answer: chinampas
The Tlacotin were not born into slavery but rather ____
Answer: They became a slave of their own choosing, either because of a punishment of a crime, or because they were taken captive.
Name at least one thing the Aztec would do during human sacrifices
Answers: they would open the victim’s chest and pull out their heart while they were still alive (1), and then they would roll them down a temple (2).
What was the aqueduct they used to get water from called?
Answer: The Great aqueduct