chp 7/8

• what were the mountains like to the Aztecs other than being known as the “physical site”?


  sacred
• How many landscapes did the Aztecs have?

  Two
• What were the Aztecs’ landscapes called?

  physical and sacred
• What were temples based off of?

  Pyramids
• Why were the temples shaped like pyramids?

  Worship gods, and it resembles the mountains
• Which god did the Aztecs believe in because they thought it led them to where they live?

  Huitzilopochtli
• What was surrounding the Tenochitlan?

  Mountains
• Why were mountains surrounding Tenochitlan?

  Protection and security
• What were the cons of the mountains surrounding Tenochitlan?

  Flash floods, keeping clouds away
• How did the Aztecs alter their geography?

  Built aqueducts to get water, causeways to connect to mainland, and chinampas to grow crops and enlarge the island
• What were the calendars called that the Aztecs used?

  solar and sacred
• Which calendar showed how the world would end?

  Great stone
• Who was the god of the fifth sun?

  Tonatuih
• What did Tonatuih want to eat?

  blood and hearts
• Who/what destroyed the four eras according to the Aztecs?

  jaguars, hurricanes, fiery rains, flood
• Why was practicing human sacrifice so important to the Aztecs?

  Showed devotion to the gods
• How did the Aztecs become disciplined, interdependent, and resourceful?


  Conflicts with other groups
• True or false; Did the Aztecs participate in trading?


  True
• What were merchants acting as?

  Spies
• When it comes to war, what was more important for the Aztec? Should they fight individually or in groups?

  Groups
• Why should every young man participate in war according to the Aztecs?

  It was compulsory
• What did the Aztecs collect once they killed a group?

  Tributes, and bones
• Why did the Aztecs keep the bones from dead people?

  Decoration, and protection
• How many social classes were the Aztec’s social hierarchy split into?

  Two
• What were the two social classes called?

  commoners and nobles
• Who was at the top of the hierarchy?

  Emperor
• what were the roles the emperor should fulfill?

  chief priest, commander of army, head of state
• What was the clan or units called the Aztec society was divided into?


  Calpolli
• What was the worst insult in the Aztec society?

  Coward
• Who said this prophecy? “we shall conquer all the people in the universe. I will make you lords and kings of every place in the world.”

  Huitzilopochtli
• Did the Aztecs stop expanding their land?

  No
• What is polytheistic?

  Believing in more than one god
• what is monotheistic?


  Believing in only one God
• What was Huitzilopochtil the God of?

  god of war and sun
• What did Huitzilopochtil to grow stronger?

  blood
• who was the god of night and time?

  Tezcatlipoca
• What did Tezcatlipoca use to see the future?

  black mirror
• Who was the god of wind and maize?

  Quetzalcoatl
• What was Quetzalcoatl known as?

  Feathered Serpent
• What was Tezactlipoca known as?

  Lord of knight