Aztecs

Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was more than 200,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.

Gardens on floating islands/farms that surrounded Tenochtitlan The Capital City. Built because of lack of available farmland

Did the Aztecs have a lot of farmland?

_______paid by captured cities, kept Aztec economy stable

human sacrifice were used to 

Pipe or channel designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity

____________transport water to Tenotchtitlan, two pipes so that while one was in use the other could be cleaned

___________best known Aztec ruler. Was the last Emperor in power when the Spanish arrived. Welcomed Cortes - did not fight

___________ was a Spanish conquistedor, conquered Aztec Empire. Aztec Emperor believed he was a god.

conquistadors 

Lake where the capital city of the ancient Aztecs Tenochtitlan was built

raised road built by the Aztecs across the lake from their capital city to a mainland

Spanish unknowingly brought ____________ to the Americas (Mexico) and infected much of the native population.

Aztecs ____________ thousands of people a year to their gods for better weather and better farming for more crops

Aztecs believed in many of these_________  and believed that they controlled nature & human activities.

Emperor, nobles, merchants, traders, and craftsmen, farmers and commoners, slaves

Emperor 

Ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan were found under this present day city.

Arrived on the shores of Mexico in 1519.

 a person whose job is copying written information

 picture or drawing that stands for a word or phrase

 a chair attached to two beams and carried on the shoulders of several people