Unit 2

Worldviews in Conflict

Activity

1. Download the document, Reading/Study Guide Unit 2: Chapter 7, Lesson 3.
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to.


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
• You will then be able to view the Reading/Study Guide Unit 2: Chapter 7, Lesson 3 worksheet.




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3. Read pages 158 and 159 of your textbook, and study the artifacts pictured.
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• How important was religion to the Aztec people?
  
• Does this religious devotion remind you of the days in Europe before the Renaissance? Explain.
  
• Why are historians interested in learning about the Aztec gods and goddesses?
  


4. Read pages 160 and 161 (including the FYI) of your textbook.
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Why are codices important?
  
• What happened to most of the codices?
  
• Why did the Aztecs have two calendars?
  
• Were the Aztec calendars accurate? 
• Why did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?


5. When you are finished, submit your completed Reading/Study Guide on the following page.
   

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