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title: The Aztecs and the Inca — how Mova does on the tests · History
description: Lesson 19 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 3 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
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# The Aztecs and the Inca

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**Tests:** 3 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★★ · **Understood:** 7 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

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Lesson 19 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/).

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Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/).

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### Test 1 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t1}

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a film shows a few hundred spaniards beating the whole aztec empire alone. true?

- **1.** Yes, alone with swords — no support
- **2.** No, the Inca beat them — no support
- **3.** Yes, because the Aztecs had no army — no support
- **4.** No, tens of thousands of native allies and disease did most of it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 4: «In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived with a few hundred Spaniards, and in 1532 Francisco Pizarro reached the Inca. They did not win alone, like a small team in a film…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same doer «tens» (+2); the same thing acted on «most» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t1/)

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### Test 2 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t2}

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Why were native peoples willing to help Cortés against the Aztecs?

- **1.** They thought Cortés was their king and had come home at last — **← Mova's choice** · score 6
- **2.** They were paid in chocolate and gold — score 5
- **3.** They hated the Aztecs' sacrifices and tribute — **✓ the right answer** · score 5
- **4.** They wanted to move to Spain — score 6

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 6, tied with another option at 6 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 19, line 8: «The Aztecs believed the sun needed offerings to keep moving and made human sacrifices, often of war captives, and neighbouring peoples feared and hated them fo…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «believe» (+3); the same doer «aztecs» (+3). The right option, 3, scored 5. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t2/)

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### Test 3 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

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The Inca had no writing as we know it. How did they run a huge empire?

- **1.** With letters on paper — no support
- **2.** They did not run it at all; every town ruled itself — **← Mova's choice** · score 3
- **3.** With telephones on poles — no support
- **4.** With quipu records, roads and fast relay runners — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what something is like. It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 11: «About 500 years ago the Inca ruled a huge empire along the Andes mountains, from today's Ecuador to Chile, the largest empire in the Americas.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «rule» (+2); the same thing acted on «huge empire» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t3/)

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### Test 4 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

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If the Inca had had horses and wheels, what might have changed most?

- **1.** Nothing at all — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The colour of the llamas — no support
- **3.** The shape and size of Machu Picchu — no support
- **4.** Travel and carrying on their roads — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t4/)

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### Test 5 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

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bro says some american found machu picchu in 1911 and nobody knew it before. right?

- **1.** Yes, nobody had ever seen it — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Yes, it was under the sea — no support
- **3.** No, the Spanish found it first — no support
- **4.** No, local people always knew it; 1911 made it world famous — **✓ the right answer** · no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t5/)

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### Test 6 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t6}

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Why did Machu Picchu survive so well?

- **1.** It is hidden deep underground — no support
- **2.** It was made of plastic — no support
- **3.** The Spanish rebuilt it stone by stone — no support
- **4.** The Spanish never found it — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 14: «Machu Picchu is an Inca town high on a mountain ridge, built of stones fitted so tightly that a knife blade cannot slip between them; the Spanish never found i…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «spanish» (+2); the same action «find» (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t6/)

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### Test 7 · ★★★ · right ✓ {#t7}

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Atahualpa filled a room with gold to go free. What happened?

- **1.** The Spaniards killed him anyway — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 4
- **2.** He became king of Spain — no support
- **3.** He was freed and went home to rule again — no support
- **4.** He sailed to Europe — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 16: «In 1532 Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa, who filled a room with gold to buy his freedom, but the Spaniards killed him anyway.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «kill» (+2); the same doer «spaniards» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t7/)

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### Test 8 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

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Why was the Inca Empire easier to take over in 1532?

- **1.** It had no people left, because they all moved away — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** A civil war and smallpox had already weakened it — **✓ the right answer** · score 3
- **3.** Its roads led to Spain — no support
- **4.** The Inca invited Pizarro to rule — score 2

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**Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 1 with score 5, against 3 for the next best. Its support: lesson 16, line 8: «The western empire faced civil wars, money troubles, disease and many peoples pushing across its borders, such as Goths, Vandals and Huns; many problems togeth…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «western empire» (+3); the same thing acted on «civil wars» (+2). The right option, 2, scored 3. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t8/)

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### Test 9 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

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Without the Andes, what might many European dinners lack today?

- **1.** Cheese — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Potatoes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Fish — no support
- **4.** Bread — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t9/)

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### Test 10 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

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A game puts the Aztecs and the Inca right next to each other. What is wrong?

- **1.** They were both in Spain — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Aztecs were in Mexico, the Inca far south in the Andes — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** They were in Africa — no support
- **4.** Nothing, they were close neighbours and traded every week — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t10/)

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### Test 11 · ★★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

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Tenochtitlan was bigger than most European cities then. What does that tell a fair historian?

- **1.** Europe had no cities at all at that time — **← Mova's choice** · score 5
- **2.** It was built by Europeans who sailed there earlier — no support
- **3.** The Americas had great cities as rich as Europe's — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** The number must be wrong — no support

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**Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 5, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 16, line 9: «In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years.», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «city» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/t11/)

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### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

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Identify the Spanish leader who in 1521 subdued Tenochtitlan with the assistance of numerous indigenous allies.

- **1.** Ferdinand Magellan — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Christopher Columbus — no support
- **3.** Hernán Cortés — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** Francisco Pizarro — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/e1/)

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### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the quipu of the Inca?

- **1.** Cords bearing knots by which records were kept — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** A variety of freeze-dried potato — no support
- **3.** The crown of the emperor — no support
- **4.** Bridges of rope across gorges — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/e2/)

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### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the fall of the Aztec Empire.

- **1.** The Aztecs surrendered voluntarily to Rome — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The Inca Empire conquered the Aztecs — no support
- **3.** Indigenous allies and epidemic disease contributed most to the Spanish victory — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** A few hundred Spaniards prevailed without assistance of any kind whatsoever — no support

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**Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/e3/)

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### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

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Ascertain the fate of the Inca emperor Atahualpa subsequent to the payment of his ransom in gold.

- **1.** He was put to death by the Spaniards notwithstanding — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** He was released and restored to his throne — no support
- **3.** He was conveyed to Spain as a nobleman — no support
- **4.** He escaped to Machu Picchu — no support

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**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/e4/)

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