The ancestral homeland of the Aztec/Mexica People
What is Aztlan
Corn, Squash, and beans are known by what other name
What is the Three Sisters
Motecuhzoma’s crown is also known as
What is El Penacho
Cortés left Spain.
What is 1504
“Indians are dead”
What is a master narrative
The capital city of the Aztec Empire
What is Tenochtitlan
Small artificial islands that were used to feed the Aztec empire
What are Chinampas
The university that holds the Codex Mendoza
What is Oxford University
California established Native American Day
What is 1998
Refers to people of mixed cultural and ethnic heritage or race.
What is Mestizaje
The year the Aztec capital city was founded
What is 1325
How many kilometers away are the chinampas from Mexico City
What is one kilometer
The European city that holds Motecuhzoma’s Crown
What is Vienna
Expedition to Cuba
What is 1511
A political ideology in several Latin American countries emphasizing the relationship between the nation-state and indigenous nations and indigenous peoples.
What is Indigenismo
A hand-painted Aztec manuscript
What is Codex Mendoza
If the agricultural production of the chinampas were boosted to 10%, how many years could they feed the population of Mexico City
What is 30 years
The person believed to have stolen Motecuhzoma’s Crown
Who is Maximillian of Mexico, the Austrian emperor
The first meeting between Montezuma II and Hernan Cortés
What is 1519
That battle where the Aztec forces drove out the Spanish for their capital city.
What is La Noche Triste
The Aztec god who directed them to build their capital where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus eating a snake
Who is Huitzilopochtli
The method of growing various interconnected crops that provide nutrients and natural protection from weeds and pest
What is Polyculture
“Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to object."
Who is Walter Benjamin
The year the Mexican government found a monolith of the chief temple of the Aztecs
What is 1926
Indigenous interpreter who aided Cortes and birthed the first mestizo
Who is La Malinche