10/29 ELA Assignment

TRUE or FALSE: If you visit Mexico City today, you can see archaeologists at work. They are busy uncovering the ancient city of Tenochtitlán.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tenochtitlán was the capital of which empire in the 1300s and 1400s?

• Inca

• Aztec

• Maya

Tenochtitlan was the main city of the _____ civilization.

• Aztec

• Incan

• Mayan

• Olmec

The Aztec Empire existed more than ____ years after the Maya abandoned their great inland city-states.

TRUE or FALSE: The land that the Aztec eventually claimed was one swampy island in the middle of Lake Texcoco.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Aztec capital city was built in the middle of Lake __________.

• Michigan
• Tenochtitlan
• Texcoco
• Mexico

Which of the following foods from lakes did the Aztec people NOT live on?

• Frogs

• Beans

• Fish

• Algae

In what area would an archaeologist find evidence of the Aztec civilization?

• Southwestern United States

• Mexico

• on the Great Plains

• Peru

Which of the following animals did the Aztec people NOT hunt for food?

• Coyotes

• Armadillos

• Snakes

• Frogs

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CCSS.RI.5.3

TRUE or FALSE: The Aztec adapted to their swampy environment by creating habitable land from the lake bottom.

• TRUE

• FALSE