Download Aztec Unit Exam - Study Guide

Aztec Unit Exam - Study Guide
Study and know the following terms, people, events and places and how they interact.
The Aztec unit exam is made up of 25 multiple choice questions and 2 written responses.
Written Responses (10 marks each). Prepare in advance
1. Knowledge of the conquest of the Aztec empire comes mostly from Spanish eyewitnesses
and Spanish written accounts. In what ways could this reliance on the Spanish version of
events influence our knowledge and understanding of these events?
2. Write an account, from an Aztec point of view, of the events leading to the fall of the
Aztec Empire.
Multiple Choice Questions will be based on the following concepts:
1. worldviews
2. tolerance
3. conquest
4. Aztec Empire
5. perspectives
6. The Spanish Inquisition
7. qualities of citizenship
8. indigenous people
9. Cortes
10. Tenochtitlan
11. Montezuma
12. Spanish reconquest of Spain
13. King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
14. code of chivalry
15. Reconquista
16. Muslims, Jews, Christians
17. conquistadors
18. Aztec calendar
19. social hierarchy
20. chinampa
21. Lake Texcoco
22. codex
23. facts about slavery
24. expeditions
25. colonies
26. conquistadors
27. creoles, mestizos & indigenous peoples
28. Mexico independence
29. Huitzilopochtli
30. Aztec temples
31. Aztec fashion
32. Quetzal
33. hildalgos
34. role of European diseases
35. encomienda