Aztec/Spanish

Questions

Where were the Mexica originally from?

Who forced the Mexica to keep moving south?

They were given pretty sparse lands around Lake Texcoco, what steps did they do, eventually, to counter this?

Tenochtitlan was the byproduct of a long term planning, what do I mean by this?

How did one become a slave in Aztec society?

Who were the Pochteca?

Like wearing Gucci nowadays, how did Aztec nobility parade their importance?

In Aztec society, why might I be in control of your future?

Why might calendars remove anxiety if you were an Aztec citizen?

What happened if you didn’t pay tribute?

Page 252

How did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella cement their power?

Spanish nobility’s disdain for manual labour, lack of taxes, ownership of land, wasn’t sustainable because?

Read pages 274 - 278

• Cocoa beans were used as?
• Chinampas building process?
• Are there biases in the book?

p280 to 281

• Heretics were seen as?
• Cottage industries meant?
• Inflation was due to?

P284 to 290

• 3 main gods and?
• Why sacrifice - correlation isn’t causation?
• Codices are?
• Astrology and Aztec Calendar.

P291 to 294

• Auto-da-fe?
• Why Castilian,and not Aragon, considered Spanish?
• A troubadour is?
• Gregorian not Julian?