MAS Fall Semester Review

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The Aztecs called themselves what name?

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Mexica

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What do Mexicans see on the moon? (Hint: Folklore)

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a rabbit

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The name of the Aztec's capital city was (modern day known as Mexico City) --

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Tenochtitlan

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Why did the Aztecs in Tenochtitlán, ancient capital of the Aztec empire, need the technologies listed below?
- aqueduct
- causeways
- canals
- chinampas

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because they lived on islands

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What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

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Manifest destiny

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This man was a key figure in beginning the revolution - he gave a famous speech called "El Grito del Dolores" to encourage people to fight for freedom.

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Father Miguel Hidalgo

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Which of the following best supports the conclusion that after 1450 C.E. interactions between the hemispheres created syncretic systems of religious belief? Options: Amerindian groups in the American Southwest converted to Catholicism after Spanish missionaries arrived. A Peruvian native wrote a letter to the king of Spain asking for his protection from Spanish diseases. An eighteenth-century African American poet and slave remembered little of her native religion, despite having been born in Senegal. Northern Mexican peasants referred to the Christian saint Mary as Tonantzin, which was the name of a local deity.

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Northern Mexican peasants referred to the Christian saint Mary as Tonantzin, which was the name of a local deity.

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Who was the conquistador with whom Malinche had a close relationship?

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Hernán Cortés

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What is the Aztec name (term in Nahuatl) for these agricultural system of floating gardens?

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chinampas

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What is the term for a blend of European and Indian ancestry?

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mestizo