What present day city was the location of where the Aztecs lived?
What present day city was the location of where the Aztecs lived?Mexico City!
100
What is Ullamaliztli?
It is a game (a lot like Pok-a-Tok) in which a rubber ball is passed through a stone hoop/ring. The Aztec sometimes made sacrifices at the end of a game.
100
What happened in the year when Montezuma 2nd took throne in 1502?
The Aztec had won many battles and made many conquests.
100
How did the Spanish bring failure to the Aztecs?
They brought many diseases and and killed over 40,000 people.
100
How could success affect commoners in battle?
Success could make commoners nobles.
200
What natural resources were used to make weapons?
Wood, stone, or obsidian
200
What were flower wars?
They were wars in which many people were killed in "war." Masses of people died in a "flower war." The Aztec called them that because flowers represented blood.
200
What happened in 1521 when the Spanish came?
What happened in 1521 when the Spanish came.The Spanish brought English diseases and killed more then 40,000 Aztec people in 1521.
200
In the 1500's how many smaller city states did the Aztec rule?
They ruled about 300 smaller city states.
200
What did the Social Classes of the Aztecs determine?
Social Classes in the Aztec Civilization determined where people lived, how they dressed, and how they earned a living
300
What were homes made out of?
Adobe or sun dried clay bricks
300
What were the boys taught?
They were taught astronomy, law, medicine, trades,and battle.
300
What did Eagle Warriors wear?
They wore a headdress and feathers so they would look like eagles.
300
Were the Aztec forced to move from the vallies of Mexico?
Yes, they were forced to move from the vallies of Mexico.
300
What did priests do for battle?
Priests chose the day of the battle and strapped statues of the gods on warriors backs.
400
How did the Aztecs get fresh water?
They got fresh water by making causeways which supported aqueducts that led right to a natural spring.
400
What were girls taught?
They were taught how to weave, cook, and take care of a family.
400
What did commoners wear?
They wore bright and colorful fabrics.
400
What did Hernan Cortes do to the Aztec?
He killed about 40,000 Aztec people.
400
How did the Aztec people get their food?
By forging, hunting, scavenging, fishing, bartering, and marketing (socializing-ish)
500
What crops did the Aztecs grow?
They grew corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, amaranth and chilies year round.
500
What are the gods of the Aztec?
The Aztec believed in many of them, they also made sacrifices to them. The Aztec believed that they needed nourishment.
500
How were clothes made?
Women and girls used fibers from cotton and maguey cactus plants to weave cloth.
500
How did Hernan Cortes kill so many Aztec people?
He brought many English diseases?
500
How was Tenochtitlan divided?
What is a capullin?
Tenochtitlan was divided into four sections, or quadrants. And each quadrant was divided into 20 capullins.
A capullin is where an Aztec family would live and it is also called a district.