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Aztec Webquest
Type in the following address:
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/
When clicking on links please click on the back button so you always go to the main
page at http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/
Where it says “explain” use complete sentences!
Click on and read Geography, Human-Environment Interaction
1. Why did nobody want to live near the Aztecs as neighbors?
2. What did it mean to the Aztec when they saw an eagle perched on a cactus
holding a snake?
3. Why did the Aztecs want everyone to go to school?
4. What did the Aztec build to grow food?
Click the back button and click on and read Government
5. Who governed each Aztec city?
6. Explain the One Time Forgiveness Law.
Click the back button and click on and read Daily Life
7. Explain the differences between the houses of the rich and the poor.
8. What did upper class people wear on their clothes to show their status?
9. What was Aztec poetry about?
Aztec Webquest Teacher Guide
Type in the following address:
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/
When clicking on links please click on the back button so you always go to the main
page at http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/
Where it says “explain” use complete sentences!
Click on and read Geography, Human-Environment Interaction
1. Why did nobody want to live near the Aztecs?
They captured people and killed them for their gods.
2. What did it mean to the Aztec when they saw an eagle perched on a cactus
holding a snake?
That the Aztecs had found a place to call home.
3. Why did the Aztecs want everyone to go to school?
Because they knew that successfully settling meant they needed engineers, builders,
and traders.
4. What did the Aztec build to grow food?
They built floating gardens to grow food on and dikes to free up land to grow food.
Click the back button and click on and read Government
5. Who governed each Aztec city?
Nobles placed by an Emperor
6. Explain the One Time Forgiveness Law.
If you confessed your crime to a priest before your crime was discovered, you would
be forgiven once.
Click the back button and click on and read Daily Life
7. Explain the differences between the houses of the rich and the poor.
Rich homes were made of sun-dried brick or stone and whitewashed, they had
separate rooms for baths. Poor homes were huts with thatched roofs, little
furniture, consisting mostly of woven mats and baskets.
8. What did upper class people wear on their clothes to show their status?
The rich wore clothes colorfully embroidered and decorated with feathers and
carried fans made of feathers.
9. What was Aztec poetry about?
Their poetry was about love, children, war, good deeds, and proper behavior
Aztec Spy Report Preview
You will be writing a report for Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortez about the
Aztec people. You are a Native American translator and spy for Hernan Cortez.
It is 1519 and Hernan Cortez has ordered you to report everything you know about
the Aztec Civilization. You will write a five paragraph essay about the Aztec
Civilization.
1. Use the following website to gather information about the Inca.
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/index.html
2. Your report needs to be for Hernan Cortez who knows nothing about the
Aztecs or the geography of Mexico.
3. The first paragraph will explain daily life of people in the Aztec Empire.
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/dailylife.html
4. The second paragraph will explain what the life of those in specialized
professions and slaves is like in the Aztec Empire
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/professions.html
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/slaves.html