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Exploring the Aztec Civilization

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Aztec civilization, covering their history, culture, and societal structure.

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1 What era did Aztec belong to?

2 They populated central Mexico dislocating speakers of ________ as they spread their political influence south.

3 Where does Aztec come from?

4 Demographic Disaster in Mexico 1519-1595 at the Department of History at the ________

5 The ________ began to migrate into Mesoamerica from northern Mexico in the 6th century.

6 What region does Aztec belong to?

7 What is the currency of Aztec?

8 According to their own history, when the Mexicas arrived in the Anahuac valley (________) around Lake Texcoco, the groups living there considered them uncivilized.

9 What religion does Aztec adhere to?

10 What type of government does Aztec have?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin, was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe.
  • the National Interventions Museum in Mexico City is located at the site of the 1847 Battle of Churubusco of the Mexican–American War, in a former Franciscan monastery built on top of an Aztec shrine.
  • the teponaztli (pictured) is an Aztec wooden slit drum.
  • the current National Palace of Mexico, despite having been destroyed and rebuilt several times, still contains building blocks from the original palace of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II.
  • the worshippers of Xipe Totec (pictured), the Aztec god of renewal, wore the flayed skins of their sacrificial victims.
  • the small mountain-top Aztec temple of El Tepozteco in Mexico, dedicated to the god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage, attracted pilgrims from as far away as Guatemala.
  • on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed, flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year.
  • at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Tarascan state was the second only to the Aztec empire in size and population.
  • Xiuhcoatl was a mythological Aztec fire-serpent, viewed as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the fire god, and was the lightning-like weapon of the god Huitzilopochtli.
  • images of the infant Jesus in Mexico (pictured) can be dressed as Aztecs, football players, and even drug traffickers.
  • Xiuhtecuhtli (mask pictured), the Aztec god of fire, was one of the nine Lords of the Night even though he was a solar deity.
  • after the Aztec Coatlicue statue was discovered, it was buried again to prevent it becoming the object of a cult.
  • at the inauguration of the sixth Aztec Templo Mayor in 1487 (scale model pictured), thousands of prisoners of war were ritually sacrificed, bathing the steps of the pyramid in blood.
  • maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods.
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