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Aztecs Unit Review
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1) What was an alternate form of currency for the Aztecs?
A
Leaves
B
Cocoa Beans
C
Iron
D
Gold
2) Who were the hidalgos?
A
Warrior Men
B
Lower class nobles, land owners
C
Women with sons
D
Priests
3) What were the virtues of the Aztecs?
A
Bravery, Courage, Self-Sacrifice, Truth, Trust
B
Obedience, Honesty, Clean-Living, Marriage, Happiness
C
Courage, Obedience, Modesty, Clean Living, Self-Sacrifice
D
Honesty, Clean Living, Marriage, Self-Sacrifice, Bravery
4) What is a chinampa?
A
Floating Tree
B
Floating Garden
C
House Boat
D
Boat
5) What were some of the advantages of the Spanish military?
A
Better men, stronger aircraft, deception
B
Nothing
C
Stronger cars, bombs, airplanes
D
Better tactics, advanced planning and superior armour and weapons
6) What was the Code of Chivalry?
A
4 codes of conduct for Christian soldiers: Religion, Honesty, Marriage, Patience
B
4 codes of conduct for women: Listen, Trust, Help, Raise Children
C
4 codes of conduct for Christian soldiers: faith in God, Military success, fairness and loyalty
D
4 codes of conduct for Christian soldiers: Faith in God, Marriage, Loyalty, Honesty
7) What were some factors that led to King Ferdinand’s and Queen Isabella’s decision to support Columbus’s voyage to the Americas?
A
Find food, expand source of gold
B
Expand religion, find food
C
Expand Christianity, Needed a new source of gold, understand new cultures and traditions
D
Find more gold, help military
8) How did Cortes lead the Spanish to victory over the Aztecs?
A
Found Aztec enemies, made them dinner, killed them while they slept
B
Found Aztec enemies, befriended leaders and then held them captive, military advantage, deception
C
Found Aztec friends, killed them
D
Nothing
9) What was the Encomienda system?
A
Economic system of giving a wife to every solider, and land
B
Economic system of giving animals and land
C
economic system of giving food and seeds
D
economic system of giving land to Spanish settlers for New Spain and they were also given Aztec slaves to farm the land
10) What was the Spanish Inquisition? What was the purpose?
A
Nothing
B
Made people pay taxes and support a wife. Purpose was to expand the population
C
Started a State run system of courts, that put all non-Christians on trial and exiled or executed them if they failed to cove
D
Started a state run system of courts that put all non Muslims on trial, the purpose was to convert to Muslim
11) Before Mexico became independent in 1821, what was their main discontent in the Spanish colony?
A
Little crops/land available
B
Land is too messy to live on
C
High taxes forced on the colony by Spain
D
Not enough people around to get married to
12) What is a Mestizo?
A
Mixed Canadian and American
B
Mixed Spanish and Aztec
C
Mixed Muslim and catholic
D
Mixed Spanish and Muslim
13) In the 1500s, a majority of people in Spain would have viewed the actions of Cortes as?
A
Positive, because he gained knowledge and an alliance with new nations
B
Negative, since he destroyed much of the culture of the Aztecs
C
Negative, since he used violence against another civilzation
D
Positive, because he gained wealth and territory for his king and country
14) Which of the following describes a worldview which was not usually shared by the Aztec people?
A
the commitment to protect their area from enemies
B
the belief that people should be able to choose any religion
C
a desire to conquer or control a greater amount of territory
D
a belief that gods controlled all aspects of their world
15) In mountainous areas of India, where there are very few areas flat enough to grow crops, the people often make terraces. The digging of these terraces, in order to overcome a geographic challenge, would be most similar to the Aztec practice of?
A
Building aqueducts
B
Creating the chinampas
C
Building causeways
D
Building pyramid-shaped temples
16) The destruction of the Aztec calendars and temples by the Spanish was a deliberate attempt to?
A
Destroy the social hierarchy of the Aztec culture
B
Remove all traces of the Aztec religion
C
Control every aspect of the Aztec economy
D
Eliminate political leadership of the Aztec society
17) The Spanish believed they were
A
Superior and needed to save the Aztecs
B
Inferior to other cultures and needed to acquire more power
C
Superior and needed to create alliances with the Aztecs
D
Superior and needed to spread their religion around the world
18) In the early 1100s, Spain was mostly
A
Muslim
B
Multi-religious
C
Jewish
D
Christian
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