771960542 | Tribal name of the Aztec people | Mexica | 0 | |
771960543 | Of Spanish and Indian blood | Meztiso | 1 | |
771960544 | Mistress to Cortes and his translator | La Malinche | 2 | |
771960545 | Floating gardens | Chinampas | 3 | |
771960546 | 4 elements of the cosmos | Earth, wind, fire, sky | 4 | |
771960547 | The plumed or feathered serpent | Quetzalcoatl | 5 | |
771960548 | Toltec capital city | Tula | 6 | |
771960549 | Aztec god of the sun and war | Huitzilipochtli | 7 | |
771960550 | Aztec mother goddess known as serpent skirt | Coatlicue | 8 | |
771960551 | Aztec capital city | Tenochtitlan | 9 | |
771960552 | Mythical ancestral home of the Aztec people | Aztlan | 10 | |
771960553 | Last god-warrior-emperor of the Aztecs | Motecuhzoma II | 11 | |
771960554 | God of lightning and death | Xlotl | 12 | |
771960555 | Language of the Aztec Empire | Nahuatl | 13 | |
771960556 | Born in Mexico by 100% Spanish parents | Criollos | 14 | |
771960557 | Cuauhtemoc's name | Falling eagle | 15 | |
771960558 | Our Lady; Our Mother | Tonantzin | 16 | |
771960559 | The place of the origins and the place where one becomes deified for the Aztecs | Teotihuacan | 17 | |
771960560 | Aztec rain god | Tlaloc | 18 | |
771960561 | Year the Aztecs began walking from Northern Mexico to the Central Valley | 1100 | 19 | |
771960562 | Year the Catholic Conquest of Mexico began | 1523 | 20 | |
771960563 | Cortes lands in the Yucatan | 1519 | 21 | |
771960564 | Years the Aztec state was established | 1325 OR 1345 | 22 | |
771960565 | Name of the hill where The Virgin Mary's church was synchronized with Tonantzin's temple | Tepeyac | 23 | |
771960566 | Market place of the Aztecs | Tlatelolco | 24 | |
771960567 | Landing place to get in Mexico | Veracruz | 25 | |
771960568 | Virgin Mary appears on Tepeyac Hill | December 9th, 1531 | 26 | |
771960569 | Roses are given to Juan Diego to show Virgin Mary is real | December 12th, 1531 | 27 | |
771960570 | Reason why Virgin Mary is the chosen one | No original sin | 28 | |
771960571 | Guadalupe Spain | Location of the Francisco Friars and Jesuits | 29 | |
771960572 | The wizard | Tezcatlipoca | 30 | |
771960573 | Middle America | Mesoamerica | 31 | |
771960574 | Cortes landed here | Chichen Itza | 32 | |
771960575 | Where the Spanish started their empire | Lake Texcoco | 33 | |
771960576 | Banished the Mexica to Lake Texcoco after myth of Mexican priest wearing their princess's skin. A city founded by the Toltecs. | Culhuacan | 34 | |
771960577 | Wrote an eyewitness account of the conquering of the Aztecs under Hernan Cortes | Bernal Diaz | 35 | |
771960578 | A type of book used by early Mesoamerican civilizations to record important historical events | Codex | 36 | |
771960579 | Number one killer of the Aztecs | Disease | 37 | |
771960580 | Using murals to spread political messages and promote certain ideas. Many muralists painted the history of the Aztec gods and goddesses and reflect the history of Mesoamerican people. | Political philosophy of muralism | 38 | |
771960581 | The fusion of two completely different religions. | Syncretism | 39 |
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