Chapter 12 - The Aztecs

Using what you learned from the video, type in each of the circles the main events that led to the founding of Tenochtitlan and by extension the start of Mexico.

Identify an aspect of the Aztec Empire you think is important, draw or find pictures of that aspect, and finally write four sentences about it.

Use Canva to do so, upload the file you finish with below.

Optionally: You may complete this mini-project on paper instead! Ask Mr. Bergh to print you a sheet.

The Olmecs were known as the "Father Culture". For being the boss of the other civilizations.

The Mayans had advanced agricultural techniques that used a calendar to predict the future seasons.

Fact 1. Aztec school would teach you how to write and fight.

Fact 2. Aztecs would take captives in battle and sacrifice them.

Based on these two facts can one claim "The Aztecs were a warrior culture."?

The Inca Empire stretched from Peru to Chile using roads on mountains.

Huitzilopochtli, the patron god of the Aztecs, and a god of war, promised the Mexica people a new home when they...

Huitzilopochtli ordered the Mexica to abandoned Malinalxochitl because Huitzilopochtli cared about their wellbeing.

What did the Mexica priests throw far into Lake Texcoco?

What horrible thing did the Mexica priests do to make the king of Colhuacan shout for his warriors to "erase the names" (genocide) of the Mexica?

Huitzilopochtli and the founding of the city of Tenochtitlan, now called Mexico City, is on the Mexican flag.

Hernan Cortez was impressed by the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan.

"To convey to your Majesty a just conception of the great extent of this noble city of Tenochtitlan, and of the many rare and wonderful objects it contains, of the government and dominions of Moctezuma, the sovereign; it would require the labor of many accomplished writers. I am fully aware that the account will appear so wonderful as to be deemed scarcely worthy of credit; since even when we who have seen these things with our own eyes, are yet so amazed as to be unable to comprehend their reality."

How did Hernan Cortez, with only 500 Spanish soldiers, defeat the Aztec Emperor Montezuma who had somewhere between 200,000 to 700,000 soldiers?

Write at least two (2) sentences using evidence from the text.

Mexico City used to be the Mayan city of Tikal.

Who was the king of the Aztecs when the Aztec Empire was it's largest?

Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztec Empire with only 600 soldiers and no other help.

The traditional story says that Montezuma II believed Hernan Cortez was a god and showered him with gifts. However we now think that might not be true.

Type a reason, YOU THINK, Montezuma might have given Cortez gifts.

Mexico was named after Mexico City.