1. Themes
1. 2 phases, 3 people, 2 dates
1. Explorations (1492: Christopher Columbus)
2. Conquest (1519: Hernán Cortés)
2. 2 questions
1. Why did the Aztec and Inka empires fall so quickly?
2. What was the legacy of the conquest?
2. Conquest of Mexico
1. Hernán Cortés
2. Jerónimo de Aguilar
3. Malinche
4. Moctezuma
5. Quetzalcoatl
6. Tenochtitlán
7. Cuauhtémoc
3. Analyzing the Conquest
1. How did so few Spanish conquer so many people?
2. Who were the conquistadors? What did they gain in the conquest?
3. What were the effects of the conquest of America?