The People of the Sun
The Aztec God that led the Aztecs to their new home
Who is Huitzilopochtli?
The ____ provided security and can cause floods
What are the mountains?
Huitzilopochtli
Who is the god who led the Aztecs top settle in Lake Texcoco (eagle on the cactus) and needed blood sacrifices to gain power (tribal/warrior god)?
How Aztecs viewed the world
What is Tenochtitlan (The Great Temple) being in the center physically and spiritually, and the world being divided into 4.
What every Aztec is willing to give up for
What is their life for common good?
The years the Aztecs ruled the largest empire in North America
What is 1300s-1500s?
After a flood in 1500, the Aztecs made it to prevent another flood
What is a dam to control water levels?
Tezcatlipoca
Who is the strongest Aztec god who can use a smoking mirror to see the future, and is locked in an eternal struggle with Huitzilopochtli?
Heart sacrafice
What is a tradition that involves sacrificing a human, which they believe will nourish the gods and will strengthen them?
The motivation for the Aztecs
What is the destiny of conquering all people as a group?
The Aztec's (Mexica) original home
What is the northern desserts of Mexico?
An artificial channel that allowed Aztecs to get spring water.
What is an aqueduct (most of the lake water is salty because of evaporation)?
Quetzalcoatl
Who is the god of wind (feathered serpent), and the one who will bring chaos to Aztec empire?
How the Aztecs got goods from other tribes
What is Aztecs forming trading alliances and traders acted as spies to understand the tribe's defense?
The Aztec's new home
In the valley of Mexico in a swampy island in the middle of Lake Texcoco (City called Tenochtitlan)?
What are bridges that connects to mainland to Tenochtitlan?
Tlaloc
Who is the god of rain who can release deadly floods famines and droughts, and is feared by the Aztecs (controlled their survival)?
The "New Fire"
What is an event that occurs every 52 years, and people will let their fire go out and one sacred torch is lit up in the temple to renew the sun.
The military in Aztecs
What is every boy will have a shield and bow to show commitment to protect people (mandatory to serve) and worse insult it to be called a coward?
How the Aztecs viewed mountains as
What are holy and sacred because it brought the people above making them believe that they were closer to the Gods?
The Chinampas
What are artificial floating islands made of mud and reeds to grow crops on?
The Aztec calendar
What is a calendar dedicated for Huitzilopochtli carved on stone, showing when the world began and will end (massive earthquake)?
The Tlatelolco Market
What is the largest market in the world and a large pride for the Aztecs where vendors sold goods and coco beans as currency?
Aztec codices
What are libraries of books containing images only that tell information about their culture but the Spanish destroyed most of them?