Aztec Keywords Quiz

The Aztec's capital city that was built on an island in the middle of a lake

• Mayapan
• Tenochtitlan
• Tikal
• Chichen Itza
• Montezuma II

Ninth and last true emperor of the Aztec civilization

• Moctezuma IV
• Moctezuma II
• Moctezuma I
• Montezuma III
• Atahualpa

A person that carried things around because the Aztecs didn't have strong animals

• hauler
• mover
• carrier
• porter
• pochteca

Traveling merchant

• Pochteca

• Porter

• Reincarnation

• Trader

A wooden club with sharp edges

• Spear
• Axe
• Dagger
• Macuahuitl

The rebirth of a person's soul as another animal, plant, or person after they die

• resurrection
• regeneration
• reincarnation
• rebirth

Highest ranking Aztec god; the god of the sun and war

• Quetzalcoatl
• Tlaloc
• Huitzilopochtli
• Xipe Totec

A god from the Toltecs that the Aztecs worshipped; god of life and wind

• Quetzalcoatl
• Xipe Totec
• Tezcatlipoca
• Huitzilopochtli

The second most important Aztec god; god of rain and water

• Tlaloc
• Huitzilopochtli
• Quetzalcoatl
• Xipe Totec

Floating gardens the Aztecs built in the middle of swamps

• Mangroves
• Water lilies
• Chinampas
• Pochtecas