Anth G222. Aztecs and Spaniards

Prof. Zeitlin

Fall 2002

FIVE INTERNET RESEARCH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AZTECS

1.	What kind of city was Tenochtitlan?

2.	What was the relationship between commoner citizens and the members of the elite class in Tenochtitlan and other Aztec cities?

3.	What kind of power did the Aztec king have over his subjects, both elite and non-elite?

4.	What were the territorial and political limitations of the Aztec empire; what was the Triple Alliance?

5.	What kind of burden did the Aztec empire impose on its conquered territories?

Class assignment

For this assignment you will be working with a team to answer the particular research question you have been assigned. In class today, you will brainstorm together to figure out the kinds of things you need to know to answer the question and each group will divide up responsibilities among its members. Each person will spend some time on the internet investigating the team question, so that the group as a whole finds at least five different internet sources relevant to the problem. At our next class meeting, the group must submit a single paragraph description of each source and the information relevant to the problem it provided, evaluating the source's credibility as an authority on this subject.

I will expect that the team members are familiar with the substantive answers to their assigned question and that each person will contribute to class discussion on this issue when we meet next week.