MAS Fall Semester Review

The Aztecs called themselves what name?

• Mexicans

• Azteca

• Mexica

• Mesoamericans

The name of the Aztec's capital city was (modern day known as Mexico City) --

• Tenochtitlan

• Nanahuatzin

• Mexico

• Tecciztecatl

Why did the Aztecs in Tenochtitlán, ancient capital of the Aztec empire, need the technologies listed below?
- aqueduct
- causeways

• - canals

• - chinampas

• because they lived on islands 
• because they traveled frequently 
• because they ruled a large empire 
• because they followed the seasons

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

• Manifest destiny 
•  Monroe Doctrine 
•  Great Awakening 
• Louisiana Purchase

This man was a key figure in beginning the revolution - he gave a famous speech called "El Grito del Dolores" to encourage people to fight for freedom.

• Father Miguel Hidalgo

• Dolores Grito

• King Ferdinand VII

• Augustin de Iturbide

Which of the following best supports the conclusion that after 1450 C.E. interactions between the hemispheres created syncretic systems of religious belief?

• Amerindian groups in the American Southwest converted to Catholicism after Spanish missionaries arrived.

• A Peruvian native wrote a letter to the king of Spain asking for his protection from Spanish diseases.

• An eighteenth-century African American poet and slave remembered little of her native religion, despite having been born in Senegal.

• Northern Mexican peasants referred to the Christian saint Mary as Tonantzin, which was the name of a local deity.

Who was the conquistador with whom Malinche had a close relationship?

• Hernán Cortés

• Moctezuma II

• Alonso Hernández Portocarrero

• Jerónimo de Aguilar

What is the Aztec name (term in Nahuatl) for these agricultural system of floating gardens?

• chinampas

• empire

• granja

• Uxmal

What is the term for a blend of European and Indian ancestry?

• mixed-ish

• mulattoes

• Eurodian

• mestizo

A result of the Mexican-American War was that

• Mexico achieved its independence from Spain.

• Mexico lost nearly half of its territory to the US

• the Aztecs were defeated.

• Mexico was defeated and had to give up all there territory