Grade 8 Aztecs Final Flashcards
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What was a caliphate?
The area of jurisdiction of Islamic rulers
What was the reconquista?
The Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims
What is monotheism?
The belief in only one God
What is polytheism
The belief in multiple gods
What is a mosque
A sacred place of worship in the Muslim faith
What is a Hadith
A well known Muslim saying
What are principalities
Small areas ruled by princes
What is a martyr
A person who dies or is willing to die for their beliefs or convictions
What is a hidalgo?
The sons of poor nobles
What is a Conquistador
The word that is used to describe the leader of an expedition to colonize other lands
What is an Epidemic
A disease that spreads rapidly and affects many individuals at the same time
What is an intermediary
Someone who acts as a go-between or mediator between two people or groups of people
What is a halberd
A weapon over two meters long that resembled a spear with an axe blade, a spear point and a hook
What were reasons that the Spanish wanted to go on voyages of exploration?
Wealth for Spain, gold and glory, gaining personal wealth
What was the Spanish worldview
The Spanish people’s worldview included things like; they believed that they should spread their religion to everyone and that everyone should be catholic. They thought that the more land you had the more powerful you were. “La geographia manda” (geography controls everything). They also thought wealth was very important.
How were the worldviews of the Spanish and the Aztecs similar?
They were similar because they both thought that religion was very important. They were both power hungry and wanted to conquer other people’s
What events lead up to the expulsion of Jewish people from Spain and the Spanish Inquisition
King Ferdinand and queen Isabella wanted to unite Spain under one religion. They took over the inquisition from the churc. It became a state run system where church officials put Muslims and Jews on trial, they were given a choice either be converted or exiled from Spain.
What was the order of events at the battle of tenochtitlan
- Cortes taken to live in the palace
- moctezuma showed them the riches
- Spanish places moctezuma under house arrest
- stole gold
- Velazquez arrived on the coast
- Cortes left de Alvarado in charge
- he gave them permission to hold a festival but massacred them
- Cortes defeated Velazquez and returned with tenochtitlan in uproar
- moctezuma tried to calm the people but they stoned him
- moctezuma died
- Aztecs drove Spanish out
- smallpox killed 25% of Aztecs
- Cortes cut the aqueducts
- Aztecs were defeated
- spanish tore down the city and built a new one
What actions did Moctezuma decide to take him on hearing that the Spanish were approaching Tenochtitilan?
As the Spanish approached he waited and thought about what to mic resume allowed Cortez to enter Tenochtitilan when they arrived they exchange gifts and he welcome them with a speech
What was the conquistadors formula, what was the main goal
- And expedition would set out from a colony
- They met peacefully there a guest to discover who is the most powerful
- then they would seize the leader and threatened to kill him and less he obeyed their orders
- If they had to fight they tried to go on open ground their weapons give them an advantage
- the leader of the expedition would become governor and his second-in-command would set up another expedition
* The goal of this was to peacefully The cheapest way to Concord, and the least amount of lives lost
What were Cortez is made goals in going to Mexico?
He heard of a more advanced, wealthy civilization and he set up an expedition he wanted to become wealthy have lots of power had and make a need for himself
What was the encomienda system and what was its main goal?
The end so me and a system was economic system where with each piece of land they were given a number of workers the main goal was to make a strong colony and to build a strong economy
When did the Spanish destroy the Astec temples and codices why
They destroyed the courtesies and temples why the priest for converting the ass text to Catholicism they did this because they were placing the religion with the catholicism and they wanted to destroy all history of “other gods”
What changes occurred to the Aztecs after the Spanish conquered Tenochtitilan why did the Spanish initiate changes?
As soon as the Aztecs surrendered the Spanish change the economic System today and so me and, with each piece of land a settler was given a number of Aztec slaves
-religion..?dont have answer
