the Aztecs

Where did the Aztecs live?

• the Valley of Mexico

• Chile / Peru

• Mississippi River Valley

• Brazil

What kind of geography did the Mayans live in

• highland basin

• swampy lowlands

• dense jungle

• snowy mountains

What was the capital of the Aztecs

• Tikal

• Cuzco

• Tenochtitlan

• Mississippi

Which of these were advantages to Tenochtitlan (check all that apply)

• easy to defend because it was on an island

• easy to move goods and people using the lake and canals

• rich in fish and ducks

• ideal farmland around the lake

a chinampa is

• a type of primate

• an artificial island used in farming

• a musical instrument

• a tool used in pottery making

how did the Aztecs prevent Lake Texcoco from becoming brackish (partly salty)

• by transporting snow from mountaintops to the lake

• evaporating the water and removing the salt

• melting ice cubes from their freezers into the lake

• by building a dike to hold back water across the middle of the lake

At the height of its rule, about how many people lived in the Aztec Empire

• 100,000

• 1 million

• 10 million

• 100 million

What was the Triple Alliance

• the three kings that shared rule of the Aztec Empire

• Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh

• three rich merchants in the Aztec Empire

• a farming community

the Aztec king (check all that apply)

• emerged as the most important in the Triple Alliance

• represented the Aztec people as an absolute monarch

• descended from the ruling family with unlimited power

• was chosen by a Supreme Council of nobles

Aztec society (check all that apply)

• was rigid with little class mobility

• was loose with room to move up in society

• consisted of the emperor, nobility and priests, middle class, and slaves

• believed in many gods, the most important were Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc