The Conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas

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The Conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas

• C. Barker
• S. Goldberg

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The Aztec Empire

• Atzlan The original homeland of the Aztec
  peoples in Northwest Mexico

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The Aztec Empire

• Chief Tenoch chief who led the Aztec people out
  of Atzlan to Lake Texcoco after receiving a
  vision from Huitzilopochtli

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Aztec Empire

• Huitzilopochtli
• Principle god of the Aztecs, Sun God
• Required Human Sacrifices

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The Aztec Empire

• Lake Texcoco a swampy lake in central Mexico
  where the Aztecs built the capitol of Tenochtitlán

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The Aztec Empire

• Chinampas artificial islands made by piling up
  mud from the lake bottom

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The Aztec Empire
Chinampas
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The Aztec Empire
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The Aztec Empire
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Conquest of the Aztecs

• Hernan Cortés Spanish conquistador who founded
  Vera Cruz and conquered the Aztecs in 1519

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Conquest of the Aztecs

• Conquistadors Spanish word for conqueror/
  explorers who expanded the Spanish domain in the
  New World

• We came here to serve God and the King and also
  to get rich.
• - One of Cortés men

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Conquest of the Aztecs

• Assimilation to take something in and make it
  part of the thing it has joined
• Aztecs made the smaller tribes they conquered
  worship their gods and take up their culture
• This did away with the original culture of the
  people they had conquered

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Conquest of the Aztecs

• Cempoala Indians one of the smaller tribes that
  had been conquered by the Aztecs and forced to
  pay high taxes and provide human sacrifices to
  Huitzilopochtli
• They joined Cortés and his men on their way to
  Tenochtitlán
• They fought the Aztecs with Cortés

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Conquest of the Aztecs

• Montezuma god-like ruler of the Aztecs
• Taken prisoner by Cortés
• Killed in the Aztec revolt of 1520

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Conquest of the Incas

• Francisco Pizarro Spanish conquistador who
  conquered the Incan Empire in 1533

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Conquest of the Incas

• Incas Highly civilized nation of people who
  lived in the mountains of Peru at the time of the
  Spanish invasion

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Conquest of the Incas

• Atahuallpa ruler of the Incas at the time of the
  Spanish invasion

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Conquest of the Incas
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Conquest of the Incas
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