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 50 multiple choice questions and 2 written responses.
Written Responses (10 marks each). Prepare in advance and MEMORIZE.
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.
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. Christopher Columbus
15. The New World
16. code of chivalry
17. Reconquista
18. Muslims, Jews, Christians
19. conquistadors
20. Aztec calendar
21. social hierarchy
22. chinampa
23. Lake Texcoco
24. Tlaloc
25. codex
26. goals of education
27. facts about slavery
28. Spanish conquest of Grenada
29. Iberian Peninsula
30. expeditions
31. colonies
32. conquistadors
33. creoles, mestizos & indigenous peoples
34. Mexico independence
35. Huitzilopochtli
36. Aztec temples
37. Aztec fashion
38. Quetzal
39. calmecac
40. telpochcalli
41. hildalgos
42. role of European diseases
43. the Franciscans
44. encomienda
*** Prepare the 2 written answers in advance and MEMORIZE for the test.