Historical Understandings Latin America Historical Understandings
Aztec capital city Now, Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs Came to Mexico in 1519 with 550 men, 16 horses, cannons
Hernan Cortes
Aztec emperor who ruled from 1500 to 1520 Conquered by Hernan Cortez
Montezuma II
Montezuma thought Hernan Cortes was the god named?
Quetzalcoatl
Soldier-explorers sent to the Americas by Spain Inspired by Columbus Came from the Extremedura (poor soil) part of Spain
Conquistadors
What was the invisible help the Spanish conquistadors had to help conquer the Native Americans?
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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire 160 Spanish fighters defeated 80,000 Incan warriors
Francisco Pizarro
Incan Emperor Defeated by the Spanish is 1530 Ruled 12,000 million people in what is now modern day, Peru
Atahualpa
Incas Capital Shaped like a jaguar
Cuzco
Exchange of physical elements: animals, plants, diseases, weapons, technology, ideals, people, etc.
The Columbian Exchange
System in which slaves, crops, and manufactures were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and the American colonies.
Triangular Trade
LATIN AMERICA CULTURE
people of mixed Native American and European ancestry
Mestizos
People with Spanish parents, but born in Latin America
Criollo
a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.
Mulatto
Main religion of Latin America
Roman Catholic
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA
1791: led a huge slave revolt against the French in Hispanola former slave in Haiti; freed in 1777
Toussaint L’Ouverture
1813: Liberated Venezuela’s Over the next few years, he liberated New Granada (now Colombia), Ecuador, Panama, Peru, & Upper Peru (now Bolivia). El Libertador
Simon Bolivar
Catholic priest began the struggle for Mexico’s independence in 1810 Mexico celebrates September 16th as it’s Independence Day.
Miguel Hidalgo