Aztec Civilization

1. What was the name of the most important city of the Axtec Empire

Culhuacan

Tenochtitlan

Teotihuacán

Tenochca

2. What is the name for the Aztec god of war?

Huitzilopochtli

Tlaloc

Xipe

Quetzalcoatl

3. What is a name for the Aztec god of rain?

Huitzilopochtli

Tlaloc

Xipe

Quetzalcoatl

4. What were the two social classes of Aztec Society?

The commoners and the nobility

The priests and the commoners

The workers and the slaves

The commoners and the slaves

The slaves and the nobility

5. What was the purpose of Aztec warfare

To settle disputes

To capture victims to be used in religious rituals

To give the men something to do

To prove one was worthy of honor

6. THe Aztecs spoke what language?

Spanish

Nauhatl

Quechua

Yucatec

7. THe name for the god that is described as the plumed serpent.

Huitzilopochtli

Tlaloc

Xipe

Quetzalcoatl

8. What was the significance on the end of the 52 year cycle?

The gods had the right to decide to destroy the universe

A new fire ceremony was conducted offering sacrifices to the gods

The people mourned for the world

The people waited for the constellation Pleiades as a symbol that the world would be allowed to continue

All of the above

9. What was the purpose of Aztec sacrifices?

To keep the world from being destroyed

To make their enemies fear them

To earn the gods' favor

To allow the priests to communicate with the gods

To offer payment for the wrong things they had done

Aztec Civilization

1. What was the name of the most important city of the Axtec Empire

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What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. What is the name for the Aztec god of war?

3. What is a name for the Aztec god of rain?

4. What were the two social classes of Aztec Society?

5. What was the purpose of Aztec warfare

6. THe Aztecs spoke what language?

7. THe name for the god that is described as the plumed serpent.

8. What was the significance on the end of the 52 year cycle?

9. What was the purpose of Aztec sacrifices?