Aztec Civilization and Tenochtitlan

Explain why Tenochtitlan was established on Lake Texcoco and how features such as causeways, canals, aqueducts, temples, and chinampas supported the city.

Compare the roles and daily lives of people at different levels of Aztec society, including the ruler, nobles, priests, warriors, merchants, commoners, farmers, and enslaved people.

Explain how Aztec beliefs about the gods, the natural world, and sustaining the universe shaped worship, festivals, warfare, and human sacrifice.

Construct an accurate timeline of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire from Hernán Cortés’s arrival in 1519 to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521.

Explain how Indigenous alliances, disease, weapons and tactics, leadership decisions, and existing political tensions contributed to the Spanish victory.

Describe the immediate consequences of the conquest for Indigenous people, including political control, religion, population, labour, and the destruction and rebuilding of Tenochtitlan.