Aztec Empire

The main crop of the Aztec

• Corn

• Squash

• Maize

• Potato

What did the Aztec create to overcome farming difficulties with the terrain?

• Step Farming

• Irrigation

• Slash and Burn

• Chinampas

The serpent god of creation

• Quetzalcotl

• Chinampa

• Itzcoatl

• Montezuma

Aztec made human sacrifices to

• get rain

• make the gods happy

• get better crops

• make the rulers happy

The Spanish Conquistador who learned of the Aztec and their riches

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Hernan Cortez

• Hernando de Soto

Another name for Spanish soldiers

• Captives

• Captians

• Conquistadors

• Cortez

What did the Aztec call merchants?

• Tlatohtinm

• Serf

• Calpolli

• Tetuchtin

Woven boards sealed together with mud

• wattle and daub

• chinampas

• texcoco

• causeways

Aztec were monotheistic

• True

• False

This was a contributing factor to the demise of the Aztec

• cholera

• leprosy

• smallpox

• typhoid fever