Aztecs Flashcards

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