By: Olivia Hunter Natalie Figueroa Angelie Ramirez Liam Hasty Mexica By: Olivia Hunter Natalie Figueroa Angelie Ramirez Liam Hasty
JEOPARDY BOARD $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Political Economic Religious FINAL JEOPARDY Political Economic Religious Social Bonus $100 $200 $300 $400 $500
Political - $100 Question What did Mexica do with the governments of their conquered territories? Click to see answer
They left them to govern themselves. Political - $100 Answer They left them to govern themselves. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Political - $200 Question What did Mexica lack that most countries in the eastern hemisphere had? Click to see answer
Elaborate Bureaucracy Political - $200 Answer Elaborate Bureaucracy Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What was the military structure in Mexica? Political - $300 Question What was the military structure in Mexica? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Political - $300 Answer They did not have a permanent army, but rather formed one when they needed it. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Discribe the political structure. Political - $400 Question Discribe the political structure. Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Political - $400 Answer They had loose stucture that relied on tributes from conquered territories. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Political - $500 Question During the high point of the Aztec empire, how many subject territories paid tribute? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Political - $500 Answer 489 subject territories Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What did trade do to their societies? Economic - $100 Question What did trade do to their societies? Click to see answer
Trade linked their societies Economic - $100 Answer Trade linked their societies Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What did Mexica receive from their tributaries? Economic - $200 Question What did Mexica receive from their tributaries? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Economic - $200 Answer They received: food crops, textiles, rabbit-fur blankets, embroiled clothes, jewelry, and obsidian knives Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What is the trading center of Mexica? Economic - $300 Question What is the trading center of Mexica? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Economic - $300 Answer City of Tula Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What is the Chinampa System? Economic - $400 Question What is the Chinampa System? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Economic - $400 Answer A system of agriculture where they took fertile soil from the bottom of the lake Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What happens to the cultivators periodic payments to the tributes? Economic - $500 Question What happens to the cultivators periodic payments to the tributes? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Economic - $500 Answer They distributed a portion of their collection to the elite class, also storing the remainder in warehouses md state granaries. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Was the Mexica religion monotheistic or polytheistic? Religious- $100 Question Was the Mexica religion monotheistic or polytheistic? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Religious-$100 Answer Polytheistic Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Where did Mexica absorb their main beliefs from? Religious - $200 Question Where did Mexica absorb their main beliefs from? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Religious - $200 Answer Mesoamerica Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What was the reasoning behind ritual bloodletting? Religious - $300 Question What was the reasoning behind ritual bloodletting? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Religious- $300 Answer By letting the sacrifices blood flow, the people of Mexica believed the gods would give the earth the moisture it needed to bear maize and other crops. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Who is Huitzilopochtli? Religious - $400 Question Who is Huitzilopochtli? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Religious- $400 Answer The patron deity over war. The people of Mexica sacrificed human victims in order to please the god and maintain military success. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What are the names of the two principal gods? Religious - $500 Question What are the names of the two principal gods? Click to see answer
Tezcatlipoca & Quetzalcóatl Religious - $500 Answer Tezcatlipoca & Quetzalcóatl Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What was the role of women in Mexica? Social- $100 Question What was the role of women in Mexica? Click to see answer
They really had no role. Just dealt with family affairs Social - $100 Answer They really had no role. Just dealt with family affairs Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Social- $200 Question What was the role of men in Mexica and how did they play a part in their society? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Social- $200 Answer They play a big part in the military and were trained to be warriors from youth Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What powers were given to the most successful warriors? Social- $300 Question What powers were given to the most successful warriors? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Social- $300 Answer The most successful warriors formed a council where members selected a ruler, discussed public issues and filled gov positions Click to return to Jeopardy Board
What did the merchants in Mexica supply? Social- $400 Question What did the merchants in Mexica supply? Click to see answer
Exotic products such as gems, animal skins and tropical bird feathers. Social- $400 Answer Exotic products such as gems, animal skins and tropical bird feathers. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Name the social order of Mexica Social- $500 Question Name the social order of Mexica Click to see answer
Priests, emperors, warriors, merchant class, serfs/peasants/slaves Social- $500 Answer Priests, emperors, warriors, merchant class, serfs/peasants/slaves Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Bonus- $100 Question What did the priests do? Click to see answer
Read omens and explained the forces that drove the world Bonus- $100 Answer Read omens and explained the forces that drove the world Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Bonus- $200 Question What are the capulli? Click to see answer
Clans or groups of families claiming descent from common ancestors Bonus- $200 Answer Clans or groups of families claiming descent from common ancestors Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Bonus- $300 Question Who did Tula share most of their architectural designs and art motifs from? Click to see answer
The Maya city of Chichén Itzá Bonus- $300 Answer The Maya city of Chichén Itzá Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Who was Bernal Díaz del Castillo? Bonus- $400 Question Who was Bernal Díaz del Castillo? Click to see answer
A Spanish soldier, that first discovered Tenochtitlan. Bonus- $400 Answer A Spanish soldier, that first discovered Tenochtitlan. Click to return to Jeopardy Board
Where did this picture come from? Bonus- $500 Question Where did this picture come from? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Bonus- $500 Answer The Codex Borgia Click to return to Jeopardy Board
FINAL Topic: Aztec Click to see question
Final Jeopardy Question Where does the term Aztec derive from? What does it mean? Click to see answer
Click to return to Jeopardy Board Final Jeopardy Answer Derived from Aztlán and means “The place of the seven legendary caves”. Click to return to Jeopardy Board