Aztec Artchitecture
Aztec Mythology
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Aztec Leaders
European Contact
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The Aztec's modeled this their capitol city after this 'city of the gods', which was 25 miles away from their building site.
What is Teotihuacan?
100
The Aztecs believed that this celestial body would die without sacrifices.
What is the Sun?
100
The founding tribe of the Aztecs called themselves this, which led to the naming of one of the North American countries.
What were the Mexica?
100
This leader oversaw the building of the Aztec capitol city.
Who was Acampapichtli?
100
These two leaders were on a collision course when the Spanish first came to the Americas.
Who were Moctezuma II and Cortez?
200
These created these artificial islands to ensure ample food supply.
What are chinampas?
200
Without beasts of burden or wheels, these creatures had to move all of the materials for building and daily life. Legend says that it took this many of them to move one stone to use in building an Aztec temple.
What are humans and what is 50,000?
200
In the 14th century, the Aztecs were more sanitary than this area.
What is Europe?
200
This leader from a neighboring tribe joined with the Aztecs, helping them to overthrow the Tepanecs in a war over water.
Who was Nezahualcoyotl?
300
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has a base roughly the size of this pyramid temple in Teotihuacan.
What is The Pyramid of the Sun?
300
While it was believed to please the gods, you might not want to volunteer for this particular Aztec ritual.
What is human sacrifice?
300
Also the age of Kanye West, this was the average life span of an Aztec citizen.
What is 37 years?
300
The Aztec ruler, Tenoch, saw an eagle eating a snake perched on a cactus and took it as an omen to build a city in this unusual location.
Who was Lake Texaco?
300
Who gets to touch Montezuma, lord of the land?
Who is nobody?
400
The approximate depth of the lake on which Tenochtitlan was built.
What is approximately 7 feet?
400
This was the birth place of the sun, according to Aztec mythology.
What is Teotiuacan?
400
The Aztec aqueduct into the city of Tenochtitlan was this long from the surrounding area to the center of the capitol city.
What is 3 miles?
400
June 30th 1520
What is the evening when the Spanish tried to leave Tenochiticlan, also known as 'the sad night'?
400
It took this long for the Spanish to kidnap Montezuma?
What is one week?
500
This engineering innovation kept the Aztecs' building from sinking into the swamp.
What are wooden pilings and volcanic rocks?
500
A disk depicting this dismembered moon goddess was unearthed in Mexico city by electrical workers.
Who is Coyolxauhqui?
500
This food was so highly prized that it was used as currency by the Aztecs.
What are cocoa beans?
500
This Aztec leader is perhaps the most famous, ruling at the height of their empire.
Who was Moctezuma I.
500
The month and year that Cortez began his attack on the capitol city of the Aztecs.
What is May 1521?
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