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#he Aztecs Answer Key Aztec Map Skills Directions: Locate the area of the Aztec civilization on the map below. Shade in the area with a colored pencil. Label at least one major m ajor city with a dot and its name. Also, label any natural features (bodies of water, mountains, rivers, etc.) that are around the area.
#he Aztecs lived lived appro$imately in this area. Surroundin" the city of #enochtitlan #enochtitlan is La%e #e$coco. e$coco.
Aztec Vocabulary Words Directions: Write the denition to each vocabulary word. !f possible, draw a picture to "o alon" with your denition.
$wo Details #he Aztec would would con&uer new new areas and and would nd victims to sacrice. #hese people were sometimes called 45owers6 and the wars were called 45ower wars6. +ftentimes warriors were sacriced. Sometimes Sometime s it was seen as an honor. honor. 7riests would do the sacricin".
Sacrices would ta%e place at reli"ious temples, especially for 8uitzilopochtli. Some Spanish records say the heads of sacriced people were rolled down the stairs.
Sacrices too% place multiple times a day, sometimes even multiple times an hour. hour. +nce source says they too% place from midday to sunset.
A priest would use a sacricial %nife and ta%e out the heart of the victim and o9er the heart to the "ods. #he Aztec sacriced sacriced to honor honor their "ods. "ods. #hey believed if they stopped, the sun would not have the stren"th to rise and that would cause their crops to fail. 8istorians thin% rulers may have enforced sacrice to control the population.
. What advanta"es advanta"es did the ;uropean ;uropean e$plorers e$plorers have over the Aztec Aztec people< #he Spaniards Spaniards had many advanta"es advanta"es over the the Aztecs. #hey had had superior weapons such as steel armor and swords. #he Spaniards also had horses which were an advanta"e to have in battles. #hey also had an unfair advanta"e of the diseases they brou"ht to the area that %illed many of the people.