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Cortès and the Conquest of Mexico

Who were the Conquistadores? Most had experience in the Caribbean Most were lower middle class, a small # were “hidalgos” All expected wealth, land, slaves, & political positions Most died in Mesoamerica & South America

Cortès & the Maya First encountered in the Yucatan in ,500 Yucatan Maya & 37 Spaniards died Geronimo de Aguilar, shipwrecked for 8 years

Who was Malinche? Malintzìn, Doña Marina, Malinche Given to Cortès as a slave Spoke Nahuatl, Maya, & Spanish

Quetzalcoatl “The Feathered Serpent” Tall, bearded, white god who was going to return

Moctezuma

Tenochtitlàn

18 th Century Spanish Depiction of Cortès & Moctezuma’s First Meeting

Reasons for the Fall of the Aztecs Disease: Smallpox, typhoid, cholera, malaria, influenza Technology & Weaponry Native Allies angry with the Aztecs

Skulls in the Templo Mayor ruins Tenochtitlàn today

Religion & Colonization Aztec temples destroyed Franciscan, Dominican, Augustinian friars in charge of conversion to Catholicism

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