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| What was the Opening Story about with the Aztecs trek to Tenochtitlan? |
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| The opening story was about how there God told the Aztecs to find a new home and to look for sign (an eagle perched on top of a cactus.) When they reached the area after 150 years and saw the sign it was in a swampy island. They made the best of this and built one of the greatest cities the world had ever seen. |
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| What were the mountains good for and what were they bad for. |
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| The mountains were good because they gave the Aztecs a sense of security like walls and also protected them from intruders. The mountains were bad because they were steep and could cause floods, but could also kept clouds out which could cause droughts from lack of rain. The mountains are also important because they were tall and brought them closer to their gods. |
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| How, Why and what did they made on Chinampas. |
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| They made chinampas by sticking stakes in the ground and putting reed mats and dirt layered on top of each other until they got above the surface They did this because they were running out of room in Tenochtitlan on land so they built them in the water. They grew vegetables, flowers and medicinal herbs on the Chinampas. |
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| Large wall that control the amount of water that enters. |
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| Aqueducts were large open tubes that ran around the city to distribute freshwater. They usually were fed it to a large fountain in the middle of the city. |
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| Coswayss were large land bridges built up using stakes and layers. These helped the Aztecs bring stuff to and from their island and the mainland. There were also smaller bridges in the middle of the cosways that could be raised in case of invaders. |
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| What do you know about Lake Texcoco |
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| Lake Texcoco surrounded the city and protect the city. No clouds came in so it became a saltwater lake. It was part of five lakes. |
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| How was their religion and gods different from the renaissance and now |
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| The Aztec society believed more in their gods than the Renaissance and now. They went to more extreme measures like human sacrifice to please their gods. They also had several God instead of just one. Nowadays and in the Renaissance you didn't have to believe in a religion. Most of the population of Aztecs believed in all their gods very strongly. |
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| Codices says we're books that recorded all about the Aztec society |
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| What were the two calendar and how did they work together |
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| The Aztecs had the solar calendar and the spiritual calendar. The solar calendar there had 365 days and the sacred calendar had 260. Every 52 years the two aligned |
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| WHat happened when Cortes came and had an interaction with Moctezuma |
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| Cortes was a Spanish Explorer. Moctezuma the Aztec Emperor invited him to see the statues of their gods the Spanish found the statues soaked in human blood and told Moctezuma that his gods that he had worshipped were evil things called devils. |
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| How was their relationship with their neighbors. |
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| The Aztecs did not conquer all the people all the neighbors that they had they actually had a very good trading relationship with most of their neighbors. |
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| Tributes were things that the Aztecs took from places that they had conquered |
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| What does the Opening Story about with the Aztecs trek to Tenochtitlan tell us about their beliefs. |
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| The opening story tells us that the Aztecs believe so highly in their gods that they settled in a swampy island unfit for an empire all to please their gods. |
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| What adaptations did they have to make because of the mountains |
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| Because the mountains were causing droughts they build aqueducts to bring fresh water to the city. They also built a dam across the lake to prevent flooding |
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| Why were codices destroyed |
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| The Spanish destroyed almost all the Aztec codices when they conquered the Aztecs |
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| Later the codices is were being remade by Aztecs but they were under this Spanish supervision which could have influenced the information on them. |
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| What happened when the two calendars realigned. |
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| When the sacred and solar calendar relined every 52 years the Aztecs let their in-house fires burnout. They lit a giant fire in the middle of the city and went around igniting all of the house fires with the same fire from the center. It was a time of rebirth |
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| What roles did the slaves have in the trading. |
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| The Aztec traders brought a bunch of slaves with them to carry what was to be traded and to carry back what they had traded with their neighbors |
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| How was the bettering the war aspect of their empire building. |
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| The traders acted as spies because when they were trading they got into their neighbor cities which they would then map them out and make a plan if they were to conquer them |
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| What was the Aztecs idea of the world? |
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| Aztec philosophers believed the earth was round and flat. They thought that it was divided into four sections and in the middle was Tenochtitlan. That the gods had assigned them a special place in the world. Tenochtitlan was also divided into four sections. The city was a model of the world and the Great Temple was at the very center. |
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| What did the Aztec trade with their neighbors? |
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| They wanted tropical fruits, coloured feathers from tropical birds, and gold or silver. |
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| How did they feel about poetry? |
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| The Aztecs liked to write poetry. Most of their poetry would teach a lesson. |
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| WHat happened when a boy was born? |
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| When the boy was born they put a tiny bow and shield in his hands which symbolize that he would protect the Aztecs |
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| What were Aztec men required to do? |
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| They were required to serve in the army. they did not want to show weakness or be a coward. |
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| a member of a civilization in Mexico |
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| the original things from the past. |
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| things written about things that happened in the past. |
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| also primary sources. They are any object from the past. |
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