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Aztec history

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the Aztecs call themselves?

a)

Aztecs

b)

Mexico

c)

Mexica

d)

Tenochtitlan

2.

True or false

The Aztecs burned/destroyed their history

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What was the lake called that the Aztecs lived on?

a)

Tenochtitlan

b)

Texcoco

c)

Machu Picchu

d)

Mexico

4.

Who were the main gods the Aztecs worshiped?

a)

Huitzilopochtli

b)

Poseidon

c)

Brahma

d)

Quetzalcoatl

5.

Where did the Aztecs come from?

a)

Mexico

b)

Tenochtitlan

c)

Aztlan

d)

Texcoco

6.

What did the Aztecs do to please the gods and to keep the sun alive?

a)

Grow maize

b)

Sacrifice prisoners

c)

Sacrifice animals

d)

Do their will

7.

Who took down the Aztecs?

a)

Spaniards

b)

Italians

c)

Incas

d)

Mayans

8.

How did the Aztecs decide who would rule them?

a)

They would vote

b)

They were born into the royal family

c)

They would choose a random person

d)

The nobles would choose one of the previous leaders sons

9.

Who did the Aztecs believe in?

(a)  

10.

The Aztecs lived on lake Texcoco because a priest/god told them that they had to live where they found...

a)

A cactus by a lake

b)

A bird

c)

A big lake

d)

A eagle on a cactus eating a snake

11.

What caused the Aztecs downfall?

a)

Alliances

b)

Spaniards

c)

Small pox

d)

Sacrifices

12.

How many wives did Moctezuma have?

a)

500

b)

200

c)

1,000

d)

50

13.

What were the Aztec levels for people?

a)

Commoners, Average, Nobles, Royal

b)

Slaves, Surfs, Nobles

c)

Slaves, Surfs, Commoners, Nobles

d)

Peasents, Slaves Royals, Nobles

14.

How many square miles was Tenochtitlan?

a)

50 square miles

b)

3 square miles

c)

5 miles

d)

5 square miles

15.

True or false

All states worshiped the same gods

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Which empire thought that war was that the enemy had to pay tribute or be sacrificed?

a)

Spaniards

b)

Aztecs

17.

What was something the Aztecs achieved?

a)

The worlds most accurate calendar

b)

A double aqueduct

c)

New ways of architecture

d)

The first farm