The Aztec: Tenochtitlan, floating gardens and tribute
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
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Tenochtitlan, an island city
Topic What we know Founding ? The island little more than a swamp, without drinkable water or stone and wood for building Chinampas farm plots built up in the shallow lake: fenced squares filled with mud until they rose above the water; farmers tended them by canoe Fresh water long stone channels, called aqueducts, brought fresh water into the city Size one of the largest cities in the world at the time; estimates of its people differ (one source gives nearly 300,000) The cell marked ? is blank. Below the chart: the people called themselves the Mexica; later historians called them the Aztec. Chinampas only seem to float.
Luz's chart has a blank: when and where was Tenochtitlan founded?
- 1325, beside the sea
- 1428, high in the Andes
- 1521, on the ruins left by the Spanish
- 1325, on an island in Lake Texcoco
Noah's chart has a blank: how did fresh water reach the city?
- From the salty lake water, just as it was
- By chinampa canoes alone
- Through long stone channels, aqueducts
- Through knotted cords
Tenochtitlan, an island city
Topic What we know Founding in 1325 the Mexica settled an island in Lake Texcoco and founded Tenochtitlan The island little more than a swamp, without drinkable water or stone and wood for building Chinampas farm plots built up in the shallow lake: fenced squares filled with mud until they rose above the water; farmers tended them by canoe Fresh water long stone channels, called aqueducts, brought fresh water into the city Size one of the largest cities in the world at the time; estimates of its people differ (one source gives nearly 300,000) Below the chart: the people called themselves the Mexica; later historians called them the Aztec. Chinampas only seem to float.
Pia reads that the people called themselves the Mexica. Who were the Mexica?
- A lake in Mexico
- The people later called the Aztec
- A kind of farm plot
- The Spanish soldiers who came in 1519
Ren reads the word aqueduct. What is an aqueduct?
- A canoe for farmers
- A market for trading
- A channel that carries fresh water
- A farm plot built up from mud in a lake
In what year was Tenochtitlan founded, Zee asks?
- 1325
- 1235
- 1428
- 1521
What did the island lack, by the chart, Ari asks?
- Drinkable water, stone and wood
- A lake around it
- People willing to farm
- Mud and water plants
How did farmers reach the chinampas, Bo asks?
- By road
- By canoe
- By wheeled cart
- By horse
Why did the Mexica build chinampas, Esme asks?
- The Spanish asked them to
- The lake was much too deep to farm in
- Their island had little dry farmland
- Chinampas were for fishing
Why did the city need aqueducts, Jun asks?
- The island had no drinkable water
- The lake water was too clean to need channels
- Farmers needed canoes
- Aqueducts carried tribute
Why does the chart give an estimate, not one exact number, for the city's people, Kira asks?
- No one lived there
- The number is exactly known
- Estimates of the size differ
- The city was very small