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 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 ? 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.
Milo's chart has a blank: what were chinampas?
- Farm plots built up from mud in the lake
- Stone channels for water
- Rafts that floated freely around the lake
- Terraces cut into mountains
Noah's chart has a blank: how did fresh water reach the city?
- By chinampa canoes alone
- Through knotted cords
- Through long stone channels, aqueducts
- From the salty lake water, just as it was
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?
- The people later called the Aztec
- A lake in Mexico
- The Spanish soldiers who came in 1519
- A kind of farm plot
Ren reads the word aqueduct. What is an aqueduct?
- A farm plot built up from mud in a lake
- A market for trading
- A canoe for farmers
- A channel that carries fresh water
Tala reads that chinampas only seem to float. Why do they seem to float?
- They rise just above the water
- They are made of wood rafts
- They sink each night
- They drift around the 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
- Mud and water plants
- People willing to farm
How did farmers reach the chinampas, Bo asks?
- By wheeled cart
- By road
- By canoe
- By horse
Why did the city need aqueducts, Jun asks?
- Aqueducts carried tribute
- The island had no drinkable water
- The lake water was too clean to need channels
- Farmers needed canoes
Why does the chart give an estimate, not one exact number, for the city's people, Kira asks?
- The number is exactly known
- Estimates of the size differ
- The city was very small
- No one lived there