1. By: Olivia Hunter Natalie Figueroa Angelie Ramirez Liam Hasty
Mexica
By:
Olivia Hunter
Natalie Figueroa
Angelie Ramirez
Liam Hasty

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