Aztecs questions

Question 1

What are the characteristics of the Aztecs?

Answer 1

disciplined, resourceful, independent, very religious, believed in human sacrifice

Question 2

Describe the Aztec education system

Answer 2

-All Aztec citizens of all social classes and genders went to school.
-2 types of schools; telpochcalli and calmecac
-Shows how the Aztecs used education to maintain social structure

Question 3

Aztec beliefs on war?

Answer 3

-used war to take victims to sacrifice to their gods.
-boys from age 15 became warriors
-Warriors captured 4 sacrificial victims, they could move up the social hierarchy

Question 4

How do you move up in the Aztec hierarchy?

Answer 4

demonstrating courage, bravery and military skill. taking captives for sacrifice (4)

Question 5

Why did Aztecs settle in Tenochtitlan?

Answer 5

believed they were directed by Huitzilopochtli to settle where they see an eagle perched in a cactus

Question 6

What causes a society to make substantial changes to its worldview?

Answer 6

-being conquered by another society
-events that affect almost every aspect of their way of life

Question 7

What was the Spanish inquisition?

Answer 7

-violent religious practice in the state-run courts in Spain where non-catholics were put on trial

Question 8

Why did the Catholic Monarchs funded Colmbus’ expedition?

Answer 8

-amount of gold could be found in the New world
-convert others to christianity
-glory for Spain in the expansion of the empire
-3G’s

Question 9

What was the motivation behind missionary work outside of Spain?

Answer 9

-convert others to christianity
-gain power

Question 10

What were the financial problems of the Spanish nobles?

Answer 10

-running out of precious metals (gold and silver)
-having to pay for the Reconquista for years
-wanted precious things

Question 11

Effects of the Reconquista

Answer 11

-Spanish expand its power and influence
-developed new way of fighting
-very effective

Question 12

How Spanish nobles fixed their financial problems?

Answer 12

-become Conquistadors
-going to the americas

Question 13

How did the Spanish worldview affect the way they treated the Aztecs?

Answer 13

-didn’t respect their beliefs or religions
-removed traced of Aztec religion
-treated them as slaves

Question 14

Spain’s advantage in military

Answer 14

-superior steel armour and firearms
-Spanished used horses and dogs in battle
-Military strategy
-use of allies
-use of canons

Question 15

Result of the Aztec Empire collapsing

Answer 15

-diseases
-inferior weapons
-ineffective battle strategy
religion

Question 16

How the Spanish conquest/changes the lifestyle of the Aztecs

Answer 16

Religion and economy was greatly affected;
-destruction of Aztec temples and codices
-believed the gods abandoned them
-thought Spanish god was stronger

Question 17

Effects of Reconqista

Answer 17

-Spain united under one religion (Christianity - Catholic) amd Spanish inquistion enforced this
-Spain’s economy suffered as a result of ecplusuion of many Muslim and Jews that had been involved in banking and were educated middle class
-Non-catholics had a choice; convert or be exiled

Question 18

Aztec contact with other cultures

Answer 18

-important to Aztec society
-allowed the Aztec to expand thei economy, expand empire through trade
-allowed Aztecs to get items they could not have or produce
-some contact was peaceful and some was not

Question 19

Aztec view on geography

Answer 19

-valued mountains above other geography
-protection mountains brought them
-Mountains delivered important resources
-mountains made them closer to their gods
-Geography could be adapted to meet their needs (dams, aqueducts, chinampas, causeways)