In Search of History: the Aztec Empire True or False



In Search of History: the Aztec Empire True or False?

______ 1. The Aztec Empire stretched from Northern Mexico to Guatemala.

______ 2. We know the exact origin of the Aztecs—where they came from.

______ 3. Huitzilopochtli was the Aztec god of the sun and god of war.

______ 4. The Aztecs believed the sun needed human hearts and blood.

______ 5. The Aztecs never sacrificed children.

______ 6. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was built at the edge of a lake.

_______7. The Spaniards thought Tenochtitlán was a dirty, ugly city.

______ 8. The Aztecs did not produce any true poetry.

______ 9. The goal of the Aztec warrior was to kill his enemy in battle.

_____ 10. The Aztecs sometimes “wore” human skins.

_____ 11. Cannibalism was unknown among the Aztecs.

_____ 12. Every 52 years the Aztecs thought the cosmos was in danger of

being destroyed.

_____ 13. The Aztecs believed Motecuhzoma was a god.

_____ 14. Quetzalcoátl supposedly had black skin and no beard.

_____ 15. Cortez said that the Spanish suffered from a disease of the heart

that only gold could cure.

_____ 16. Modern Mexicans see Malinche as a hero.

_____ 17. Cortez had 6,000 Spaniards in his army.

_____ 18. Motechuhzoma welcomed Cortez as the returning god

Quetzalcoátl.

_____ 19. In 1519 Cortez made Motecuhzoma a prisoner in his own palace.

_____ 20. The Aztecs had no statues of the gods Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc.

_____ 21. It’s certain that Motechuhzoma was killed by his own people.

_____ 22. A smallpox epidemic broke out among the Aztecs.

_____ 23. Modern Mexico City is built on top of the old Aztec capital of

Tenochtitlán.

_____ 24. It’s illegal to dig up old Aztec ruins in the Mexico City area.

_____ 25. The Aztecs were actually a very moral people.

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