Physical Features
What is a major mountain range in Mexico?
What is the Sierra Madre?
Who was the Spanish conquistador that led the conquest of the Aztec Empire?
Who is Hernán Cortés?
What was the capital city of the Aztec Empire? (What is it known as now?)
What is Tenochtitlán? (and What is Mexico City?)
Which early civilization used chocolate beans as money?
Who is the Aztec?
What is an empire?
What is a land with different territories and peoples under a single ruler?
Name the large desert located in northern Mexico.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
What year did Hernán Cortés arrive in Mexico?
What is 1519?
What is the main writing system used by the Maya?
What is hieroglyphics?
Which early civilization is know as the "Mother Culture"?
Who are the Olmec?
What is a mission?
What is a church outpost?
What body of water lies to the east of Mexico?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
What was the main goal of Spanish colonization in Mexico?
What is to acquire gold and spread Christianity?
What early civilization of Mexico is known for its large stone heads?
Who is the Olmec?
Who created the first pyramids in South America?
Who is the Olmec?
What is a person of mixed European and Indian ancestry?
What is a mestizo?
Which river is the longest in Mexico?
What is the Rio Grande?
Which native group did the Spanish first encounter when arriving in Mexico?
Who are the Aztecs?
Which early civilization created a detailed calendar system?
Who is the Maya?
Which early civilization sacrificed war captives and other people to their religious gods?
Who are the Aztec?
What is a person of mixed European and African ancestry?
What is a mulatto?
What is the name of the peninsula located in southeastern Mexico?
What is the Yucatán Peninsula?
Which early civilization are the Spanish responsible for destroying?
Who are the Aztecs?
What year did the Aztec Empire fall?
What is 1521?
What helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec in 1521?
What is guns, horse, and disease?
What is a hacienda?
What is a huge expanse of farm or ranch land in the Americas?