Aztec
Spanish
Sim/Diff
Meeting
New Spain
100
The Aztecs built ___________ for transporting water and ___________ for agriculture.
What are aqueducts and chinampa?
100
The explorer who kickstarted Spain's quest for gold, and the Age of Exploration.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The emperor is at the top in Aztec society, and the King is at the top of the Spanish.
What is social hierarchy?
100
The step by step process Cortes followed to conquer the Aztecs.
What is Conquistadors' formula?
100
He conquered the Aztecs and then stuck around to rule the colony.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
200
The name of the Aztec city.
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
The process of torture and death to ensure people of Spain converted to Christianity.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
200
Aztecs believed in many gods while the Spanish believed in one god.
What is polytheism and monotheism?
200
The type of weapon that the Spanish used that the Aztecs though were thunder and lightning.
What are muskets?
200
The economic system set up in New Spain.
What is the encomienda system?
300
The Aztecs made enemies with conquered groups by forcing them to pay a _______________.
What is a tribute?
300
The Christian claiming of Muslim Spain.
What is the Reconquista?
300
The Aztecs had access to this, but used it for the gods. The Spanish came to the New World looking for this and highly valued it.
What is gold?
300
The type of disease that broke out amongst the Aztecs.
What is smallpox?
300
The religion that the Aztecs were forced to convert to.
What is Catholicism?
400
These were the units that Aztecs were organized into.
What is calpolli?
400
The three Gs of the Spanish worldview.
What is God, Glory, and Spain?
400
The G that is most shared between our society and the Spanish society.
What is glory?
400
An advantage the Spanish gained from the way Aztecs treated other people.
What are indigenous allies?
400
The place on the hierarchy that the Aztecs sat after conquer.
What is the bottom, (slaves)?
500
The two schools of Aztec society.
What are calmecac and telpochcallli?
500
The name of the Islam area that Spain was a part of.
What is the caliphate?
500
The animal that the Spanish had that became an advantage for them, while the Aztecs did not have them.
What are horses?
500
How Moctezuma reacted to the Spanish threat.
What is sitting back and waiting for the Spanish to come, and then welcoming them into their city?
500
The way the Cortes ensured that Spanish families grew in New Spain
What are marriage laws?