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What was the capital city of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan
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What lake is Tenochtitlan built on?
Lake Texcoco
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How was Tenochtitlan easily defended?
It had no accessible roads to it, making it harder to launch long scale attacks.
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What specifically made Tenochtitlan easily defendable?
The city was surrounded by water, with limited causeways connecting it to the mainland.
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How did the Aztecs support agriculture?
By using artificial islands known as chinampas for crop growth.
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What are chinampas?
Man-made floating gardens that provided fertile soil for year-round agricultural production.
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How did the Aztecs expand their empire?
Through military conquest and alliances.
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What societal structure did the Aztecs rely on for expanding territory?
Their strong warrior society.
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What was the result of Aztecs forming alliances with other city-states?
They often lost control over the conquered territories.
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Why did the Aztecs rely on local elites to govern conquered regions?
They often lost direct control over those territories.
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What method did the Aztecs depend on for maintaining order in conquered areas?
They depended on local rulers.
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What did these local rulers collect from the conquered areas?
Tribute payments in the form of food, gold, silver, military supplies, and people.
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What is the Aztec tribute system?
A system where conquered regions had to pay tributes, which could include food, luxury goods, precious metals, military supplies, and people.
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Why did the Aztecs practice human sacrifice?
To nourish the sun and postpone the destruction of the world.
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What was the Aztec belief regarding the world's operation?
They believed it operated in cycles of creation and destruction.
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What did the Aztecs need to offer to the sun god?
Human sacrifices to ensure the sun god had energy to rise each day.
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Who was the most important Aztec god?
The sun god, Huitzilopochtli.
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What types of gods were important to the Aztecs?
Sun god, war god, earth god, rain god, moon god.
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What role did Aztec deities play?
They played a role in maintaining cosmic balance.
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