Aztec
All About Food
Trapped Behind Glass
What a year
Define Me
100

The ancestral homeland of the Aztec/Mexica People 

What is Aztlan

100

Corn, Squash, and beans are known by what other name 

What is the Three Sisters 

100

Motecuhzoma’s crown is also known as 

What is El Penacho 

100

Cortés left Spain.

What is 1504

100

“Indians are dead”

What is a master narrative

200

The capital city of the Aztec Empire

What is Tenochtitlan

200

Small artificial islands that were used to feed the Aztec empire

What are Chinampas

200

The university that holds the Codex Mendoza 

What is Oxford University 

200

California established Native American Day

What is 1998

200

Refers to people of mixed cultural and ethnic heritage or race.

What is Mestizaje

300

The year the Aztec capital city was founded 

What is 1325

300

How many kilometers away are the chinampas from Mexico City  

What is one kilometer

300

The European city that holds Motecuhzoma’s Crown 

What is Vienna

300

Expedition to Cuba

What is 1511

300

A political ideology in several Latin American countries emphasizing the relationship between the nation-state and indigenous nations and indigenous peoples.

What is Indigenismo

400

A hand-painted Aztec manuscript

What is Codex Mendoza 

400

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

400

The person believed to have stolen Motecuhzoma’s Crown 

Who is Maximillian of Mexico, the Austrian emperor

400

The first meeting between Montezuma II and Hernan Cortés

What is 1519

400

That battle where the Aztec forces drove out the Spanish for their capital city.

What is La Noche Triste

500

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

500

The method of growing various interconnected crops that provide nutrients and natural protection from weeds and pest  

What is Polyculture 

500

“Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to object."

Who is Walter Benjamin 

500

The year the Mexican government found a monolith of the chief temple of the Aztecs

What is 1926

500

Indigenous interpreter who aided Cortes and birthed the first mestizo 

Who is La Malinche