Geography Education Values Beliefs Society
100
Lake Texcoco
What is the lake that the Aztecs lived on called?
100
Calmecac
What was the school called for the nobles?
100
An Omen
What was it called when there was a bad sign?
100
Nobles & Commoners.
What were the two main classes in Aztec society?
200
North America
What continent did the Aztecs live on?
200
Telpochcalli
What was the school called for the commoners?
200
Quetzalcoatl
Which god was supposed to return and destroy the Aztecs in the year "One-Reed"?
200
Achieving success on the battlefield.
How did people move up in Aztec society?
300
Aqueducts
If lake Texcoco was saline, how did they get fresh water?
300
About 10-15 years old.
About what age did the Aztec children start going to school?
300
Units of organization in Aztec society.
Explain a calpolli.
400
Chinampas
What did the Aztecs build and use to grow plants?
400
20, because the counted on their fingers and toes.
What was the Aztec number system based on? And why?
400
Merchants: Brought back prized goods, acted as spies for the Aztecs
Farmers: Grew crops, hunted, fished
Artisans: Make fashionable clothes, make works of art
What was the role of the following:
Merchants
Farmers
Artisans
500
Good: Block enemies, and\or clouds.
Bad: Flash floods, can't grow as many types of plants.
What is one good thing and one bad thing about the mountains surrounding the Aztecs?
500
Differences:
In the Telpochcalli, children were taught only through oral lessons.
In the Calmecac children were taught to read and write.
Similarities:
Both had religious training.
Both schools had oral lessons.
What were 2 differences and 2 similarities between the Calmecac and Telpochcalli?
500
Courage, self-sacrifice, modesty, clean living, obedience.
What were the five virtues of the ideal Aztec citizen?
500
It was the strongest expression of their devotion to the gods,since they believed that the victims blood actually nourished the gods.
Why did the Aztecs believe that it was necessary to give the gods human blood?
500
1. Emperor
2. Nobility and Priests
3. Merchants, Artisans, Soldiers
4. Farmers, Fishers, Women
5. Slaves
Explain in order from top to bottom the Aztec social hierarchy.






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