Aztecs Quiz

What is the name of the geographical region stretching from central Mexico to parts of Central America where indigenous people lived for thousands of years until the Europeans arrived?

• Mexico

• Mexican American

• Mesoamerica

What is the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan known as today? (2 words)

• Mexico City

• Mexico Country

• Aztec Empire

What is name of the language the Aztecs spoke?

• English

• Nahuatl

• Spanish

What word comes from the Nahuatl word xocolatl?

• Vanilla

• Chocolate

• Coffee

What was the name of the Aztec capital city?

• Tenochtitlan

• Mesoamerica

• Mexico

What was the name of the mythical homeland of the Aztecs?

• Disney World

• Mesoamerica

• Aztlan

Aztecs were known as the _______(Hint: may-she-ka)

• Mexico

• Mesoamericans

• Mexica

What is the word for a leader in the Spanish conquest of America?

• explorer

• conquistador

• el jefe

TRUE OR FALSE: Aztecs didn't call themselves Aztecs.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE OR FALSE: Aztecs didn't call themselves Aztecs.

• TRUE

• FALSE