Vocab
What is the Spanish word for 'conqueror'?
Conquistador
Bean used to make chocolate
cacao
Least powerful people in Aztec society
slaves
Spanish conquistador who first met the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
A source created after the time being studied
secondary source
Colonisation
Which civilisation was the oldest: Aztec or Maya?
Maya
Last emperor of the Aztecs
Montezuma
Disease brought by the Spanish that killed many Aztecs
smallpox
What CE stands for
e.g. in 1521 CE…
Common Era
Complex way of life with people living in urban areas, trading, traveling, using technology
civilisation
Civilisation in the Andes Mountains that built Machu Picchu
Inca
Aztec ceremony conducted on pyramids to nourish their gods
Human sacrifice
Moving foods, people, diseases between the New World and Old World
(named after Christopher Columbus)
Columbian Exchange
The word for when you steal other people's work
plagiarism
Organising (people) with the powerful on top and the powerless at the bottom
hierarchy
Most important crop in Mesoamerica, also called maize
corn
Capital city of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
Spanish for ‘Day of the Dead’, festival combining Spanish and Aztec beliefs
Dia de los Muertos
Putting information in your own words
paraphrase
Believing in many gods
polytheistic
Pictures and symbols used in writing systems; the Aztec writing system
glyphs
Floating islands used for farming
chinampas
Indigenous people of the Bahamas who suffered under Columbus
Arawak Indians
The way history is written by choosing which facts and voices to include
Hint: It starts with P
Perspective