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What was an alternate form of currency for the Aztecs?
a) Cocoa Beans
b) Gold
c) Leaves
d) Iron

Who were the hidalgos?
a) Warrior Men
b) Lower class nobles, land owners
c) Women with sons
d) Priests

What were the virtues of the Aztecs?
a) Bravery, Courage, Self-Sacrifice, Truth, Trust
b) Honesty, Clean Living, Marriage, Self-Sacrifice, Bravery
c) Courage, Obedience, Modesty, Clean Living, Self-Sacrifice
d) Obedience, Honesty, Clean-Living, Marriage, Happiness

What is a chinampa?
a) Boat
b) House Boat
c) Floating Tree
d) Floating Garden

What were some of the advantages of the Spanish military?
a) Stronger cars, bombs, airplanes
b) Better men, stronger aircraft, deception
c) Better tactics, advanced planning and superior armour and weapons
d) Nothing

What was the Code of Chivalry?
a) 4 codes of conduct for Christian soldiers: faith in God, Military success, fairness and loyalty
b) 4 codes of conduct for Christian soldiers: Faith in God, Marriage, Loyalty, Honesty
c) 4 codes of conduct for Christian soldiers: Religion, Honesty, Marriage, Patience
d) 4 codes of conduct for women: Listen, Trust, Help, Raise Children

What were some factors that led to King Ferdinand’s and Queen Isabella’s decision to support Columbus’s voyage to the Americas?
a) Expand religion, find food
b) Find food, expand source of gold
c) Expand Christianity, Needed a new source of gold, understand new cultures and traditions
d) Find more gold, help military

How did Cortes lead the Spanish to victory over the Aztecs?
a) Found Aztec enemies, befriended leaders and then held them captive, military advantage, deception
b) Found Aztec friends, killed them
c) Found Aztec enemies, made them dinner, killed them while they slept
d) Nothing

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 land to Spanish settlers for New Spain and they were also given Aztec slaves to farm the land
d) economic system of giving food and seeds

What was the Spanish Inquisition? What was the purpose?
a) Started a State run system of courts, that put all non-Christians on trial and exiled or executed them if they failed to cove
b) Started a state run system of courts that put all non Muslims on trial, the purpose was to convert to Muslim
c) Made people pay taxes and support a wife. Purpose was to expand the population
d) Nothing

Before Mexico became independent in 1821, what was their main discontent in the Spanish colony?
a) Little crops/land available
b) Not enough people around to get married to
c) Land is too messy to live on
d) High taxes forced on the colony by Spain

What is a Mestizo?
a) Mixed Muslim and catholic
b) Mixed Spanish and Aztec
c) Mixed Canadian and American
d) Mixed Spanish and Muslim

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) Positive, because he gained wealth and territory for his king and country
d) Negative, since he used violence against another civilzation

Which of the following describes a worldview which was not usually shared by the Aztec people?
a) a belief that gods controlled all aspects of their world
b) a desire to conquer or control a greater amount of territory
c) the commitment to protect their area from enemies
d) the belief that people should be able to choose any religion

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 pyramid-shaped temples
b) Building aqueducts
c) Creating the chinampas
d) Building causeways

The destruction of the Aztec calendars and temples by the Spanish was a deliberate attempt to?
a) Remove all traces of the Aztec religion
b) Control every aspect of the Aztec economy
c) Destroy the social hierarchy of the Aztec culture
d) Eliminate political leadership of the Aztec society

The Spanish believed they were
a) Inferior to other cultures and needed to acquire more power
b) Superior and needed to save the Aztecs
c) Superior and needed to spread their religion around the world
d) Superior and needed to create alliances with the Aztecs

In the early 1100s, Spain was mostly
a) Christian
b) Muslim
c) Multi-religious
d) Jewish

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