Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Study Guide Today

Today we completed the study guide for ch 15, and students were told that it is due tomorrow. We will play our review game thursday and hopefully test on friday. Here is the study guide for students who missed today.

Chapter 15 – The Aztec and Inca Empires

Study Guide

1. Why were the sons of Aztec nobles sent to special schools?

2. What is a codex?

3. Describe the ceremony when an Aztec king was crowned.

4. What Inca ruler led a great expansion on the empire?

5. Describe the life of a lower-class Inca.

6. What is a major similarity between the Aztec and Inca religions?

7. Who led the conquistadors against the Inca Empire?

8. Why was the Inca road system important?

9. How were Inca stories passed to future generations?

10. Describe Inca buildings.

11. What was a community of Aztecs called?

12. What groups were the lowest class of people in the Aztec Empire?

13. Who were the first Aztecs?

14. How did the first Aztecs conquer the land around Lake Texcoco?

15. Describe Tenochtitlan before the Europeans arrived.

16. What were the 3 factors that led to the rise of the Aztecs?

17. What were the reasons that the Spanish came to the Americas?

18. What did the Spanish unknowingly bring that helped them conquer the Aztecs?

19. Why did Moctezuma II welcome Hernan Cortes?

20. Why did Native American tribes make alliances with Cortes?

21. How did Tenochtitlan’s location help the fall of the Aztec Empire?

22. How did horses help the Spanish conquer the Aztecs?

23. What was Machu Picchu?

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