Maya, Aztec, and Inca Pretest

What were chinampas?

• Bread made from potatoes

• Red tunics

• Wooden clubs

• Gardens

Coatlicue was an Aztec goddess and had a double head of two snakes facing each other, and also snakes for arms, jaguar feet and a necklace of hearts and skulls.

• True

• False

What did poor Aztec families sometimes do in order to get some money?

• Sell their homes

• Cut off and sell their hands

• Volunteer to work in the temples

• Sell their children

The Aztecs believed that it was a great thing to die in battle.

• True

• False

When warriors had run out of food, what would they eat?

• Their dead enemies

• Soil

• Each other

• Their own fingers

Where would the Aztecs bury a dead member of their family?

• In a graveyard

• In an Aztec temple

• Under their house

• In the forest

What were Aztec children often told to collect in the fields?

• Pebbles

• Beetles

• Earthworms

• Animal droppings

What was the punishment for a poor person caught wearing clothes that only the rich were allowed to wear?

• Having their house demolished

• 1 month in prison

• a fine

• Having their hands cut off

Only warriors that had killed a man in battle were allowed to have long hair.

• True

• False

When Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived, the Aztecs believed he was Quetzalcoatl, a god who would bring peace to Mexico (some hope!). What did “Quetzalcoatl” mean?

• White beard

• Iron head

• Fire stick

• Feathered snake