Review Quiz: Causes of the Aztec Empire Downfall

Causes of the Aztec Empire Downfall

Review Quiz

Multiple Select

Check all that apply: How did the Aztecs expand their empire?

• Making alliances with local tribes to help conquer other tribes

• Implementing a tribute system where cities had to pay a tax to the empire

• Their vast trading network also helped the empire become rich

Multiple Choice

What were the Spanish soldiers called?

• Warriors

• Knights

• Conquistadors

• Samurai

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What were the conquistadors searching for when they got to the Americas?

• GOLD

• GOLD

• GOLD

• GOLD

Multiple Choice

Where was the Aztec Empire located?

• Central Mexico

• Central America

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America

Open Ended

When the Spaniards arrived in Mexico, local tribes were more than willing to help them defeat the Aztecs. Why were they willing to help the Spaniards instead of the Aztecs?

Multiple Choice

Why was Malinztin an important ally to the Spaniards?

• She was able to provide food and shelter for the Spaniards

• She was from a noble family that offered the Spaniards gold

• She spoke two languages that helped the Spaniards communicate with the tribes

• She was a tax collector who knew the route to the capital city

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Check all that apply: How did the Spanish use the local geography to defeat Tenochtitlan?

• They blocked the causeways

• They destroyed the aqueduct

• They caused the Aztecs to starve to death without access to food and supplies

• They drowned the lake

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: The Spaniards brought disease to Mexico that quickly killed off the entire Aztec empire

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: The Aztec king, Moctezuma, thought Cortes was a god

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

All of the following factors helped the Spaniards defeat the Aztecs EXCEPT

• European diseases

• Superior weapons

• problems within the Aztec empire

• Greater number of soldiers