Short-Term Impacts
What is a lower population, leading to reduced access to food and labour?
The year Tenochtitlan fell.
When is 1521?
The person who 'discovered' the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The major and obvious long-term impact.
What is the loss and destruction of Aztec culture and society?
Name of the Aztec capital.
What is Tenochtitlan?
A disease introduced by the Spanish.
What is smallpox?
A major reason the Spanish won against the Aztecs.
What is improved/advanced weaponry, e.g., guns?
The person who lead the battle against the Aztecs.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The term for a hostile takeover of land and people.
What is colonisation?
Three things the Europeans wanted to explore for.
What is gold, God, glory?
A possible impact/s of conquest.
What is the disruption/loss of society, culture, and politics?
A reason the Aztecs did not surrender.
What is a cultural idea of what honourable battle is?
Who was involved in the conquest of Tenochtitlan.
Who are the conquistadors, Hernan Cortes, and Indigenous soldiers?
Ways Aztec society and culture can be studied and explored in modern times.
What is art, drawings, writings, witness accounts, artefacts, and historical sites (architecture, buildings, etc)?
What is Mexico?
The way Aztecs lived and/or were treated after the fall of Tenochtitlan.
What is slavery/forced labour?
A cultural practice of the Aztecs which (allegedly) caused them to "fight battles twice" against the Spanish forces.
What is taking hostages for ritual purposes?
The term for Spanish soldiers.
What is a conquistador?
The impact of rumours of Aztec riches and wealth.
What are more exploration and colonisation efforts from European populations, leading to a "wave of (worldwide) conquests"?
What is obsidian?
What are mountains of corpses in the streets/waterways?
The people who were initially killed in a Spanish attack during a festival.
Who were singers, dancers, and/or unarmed civilians?
The Emperor of the Aztecs when their empire fell.
Who is Moctezuma II?
What is the encomienda system?
The MAIN thing or concept worshipped by the Aztec people.
What is the sun/Sun God?