Aztec Day 4

Aztec Day 4

by Caitlin Irwin

​​Tenochtitlan

​Tenochtitlán was the capital of the Aztec Empire. The land that was once Tenochtitlán is now part of Mexico City, Mexico.

​Tenochtitlan

​Tenochtitlán was built on an island on the waters of Lake Texcoco. It was connected to the mainland by causeways.

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A causeway is ​a raised road built over water to connect islands to a mainland

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What is a causeway? 

​​Tenochtitlan

​A network of canals linked different parts of the city. The Aztec traveled around their capital in canoes.

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​A canal is a channel dug by people, used by boats or for irrigation

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What is a canal?

Multiple Choice

The capital city of the Aztec empire was:

• Yucatan Peninsula 

• Tenochtitlan

• Boston, MA

• Mexico

Multiple Choice

What is ​a raised road built over water to connect islands to a mainland

• A causeway

• a canal

• a river

• a tunnel

Multiple Choice

People traveled around Tenochtitlan by canoes.

• True

• False

​The Market

​Tenochtitlan was the center of the Aztec government and religion. It was also a very big trading center.

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They traded many things ​including sandals, feathers, seashells, turkeys, wood, corn, bananas, pineapples, honeycombs, and fabrics.

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Describe what you may see at the Aztec market.

​The Great Pyramid

​This massive pyramid is almost one hundred yards wide at its base. That’s roughly the length of a football field! It rises almost ninety feet in the air.

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​Surrounding the Great Temple are several smaller temples. Each of these is dedicated to a different god.

​Emperor's Palace

​Not far from these religious buildings stands the palace of the Aztec emperor.

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Commoners are not allowed to enter. The palace has hundreds of rooms and more than a thousand servants.

Multiple Choice

The Aztec would go here to buy goods and trade.

• Market

• The Great Pyramid

• Palace

Multiple Choice

Religious ceremonies were held here.

• the market

• palace

• Great Pyramid

Multiple Choice

This is where the emperor lived.

• market

• Great Pyramid

• palace

​Daily Life

​The rich lived in homes built from brick or stone. Some had a coat of white paint. Homes had a separate place for steam baths where water poured over hot stones to make steam.

​Daily life

​Most Aztec People lived in one-room houses with thatched roofs and mud walls.

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Multiple Choice

Most of the Aztec people were:

• workers

• priests

• emperors

​School

​Aztec people were educated whether they were male or female but they were taught in different schools. Children were taught about warfare, history and religion.

​School

​While boys were trained to be soldiers, girls were taught how to weave, cook and keep a house. From the age of 12, girls would also serve a priestess with some becoming priestesses themselves.

Multiple Choice

All Aztecs children went to school to learn.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

what did the aztec girls study?

• agriculture and pottery

• history & religion, dancing

• cooking, sewing, weaving and childcare

• farming and trading

Open Ended

Tenochtitlan was on Lake Texcoco. What is a reason this would be a good place to start a civilization?