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100

A floating island built in the water around Tenochtitlan for growing crops.

What is a chinampa?

100

Gifts and taxes provided to the Aztecs by conquered groups. It allowed the Aztecs to become more powerful.

What is tribute?

100

This Emperor of the Aztecs may have believed the arrival of the Spanish was about to usher in an era of peace. 

Moctezuma II

100

This was the primary purpose of the encomienda system established in New Spain.

To use the land and labour of the Indigenous people to enrich the conquistadors.

100

The Spanish retook the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims during this conflict.

What is the Reconquista?

200

A state-run system of courts where non-Catholics were put on trial.

What is the Spanish Inquisition?

200

A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.


What is a Mulatto? 

200
The Aztec concept of citizenship placed the highest value on the need for citizens to either: A) work hard at their jobs to increase personal wealth B) place the needs of the state above individual needs
What is B - place the needs of the state above individual needs.
200

The punishment for many Jewish citizens in Spain during the Inquisition?

What is exile? 

200

Of the different hierarchies discussed this year, what hierarchy is the encomienda system most similar to?

What is the feudal system?

300

The geographical feature that Aztec temples were designed to look like.


What are mountains?

300

This segment of the global slave trade transported between 10 million and 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th century.

What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade? 

300

The Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico because.....

Huitzilopochtli commanded the Aztecs to go south and find a place to live. They were told that when they found an eagle perched on a cactus, they should settle at that spot. On a swampy island, the Aztecs saw an eagle sitting on a cactus.

300

What's the first and last name of the Spanish conquistador that saw the end of the Aztec empire?

Hernan Cortes

300

Gold, god, geography and glory make up this nation's worldview.

What is the Spanish worldview?

400

The name of the Aztec Sun-God.

What is Huitzilopochtli

400

This term is used to describe the Spanish "conquerors" of the Americas.

What is a conquistador?

400

Self-sacrifice and modesty are two virtues of the ideal Aztec citizen. Name 2 of the 3 other virtues.

What are courage, clean living, or obedience

400

Which Spanish weapon likely had the biggest impact on the Conquest of Mexico?

What is the musket? 

400

THis ethnicity makes up the largest part of the Mexican population today.

What is Mestizo? 

500

When a disease spreads rapidly through a group of people.

What is an epidemic?

500

When the Aztecs ________ people to Huitzilopochtli (the god with warlike aspects) the victim would be placed on a sacrificial stone. The priest would then cut through the abdomen with an obsidian or flint blade. The heart would be torn out still beating and held towards the sky in honor to the Sun-God.

What is sacrificed? 

500

The Spanish removed destroyed Aztec temples and used the stones to build churches. Why?

To remove all traces of Aztec culture religion.

500

Explain the Conquistador's Formula.

  1. Set off from an existing colony; once landed in a new region, the Spaniards would meet the local people peacefully to discover the area's most powerful group.
  2. The leader of the expedition would invite the leader to meet, and exchange gifts.  The Spanish would then take control of the leader and threaten his life if he did not obey.
  3. If there was fighting, it would be done in on open ground, making use of their military weapons, armour and horses.
  4. The leader of the expedition would then become the next leader of the new colony and the second-in-command would lead the next expedition.
  5. The Indigenous peoples would then be forced into slavery.
500

What are 3 of the main reasons as to why the Spanish successfully conquered the Aztecs?

1) Disease - Smallpox 2) Advancement in Technology - weaponry & armour 3) Leadership skills - Conquistador's Formula 4) Alliances with other Indigenous groups