1. Historical Understandings
Latin America
Historical Understandings

2. Aztec capital city
Now, Mexico City

3. Tenochtitlan

4. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
Came to Mexico in 1519 with 550 men, 16 horses, cannons

5. Hernan Cortes

6. Aztec emperor who ruled from 1500 to 1520
Conquered by Hernan Cortez

7. Montezuma II

8. Montezuma thought Hernan Cortes was the god named?

9. Quetzalcoatl

10. Soldier-explorers sent to the Americas by Spain
Inspired by Columbus
Came from the Extremedura (poor soil) part of Spain

11. Conquistadors

12. What was the invisible help the Spanish conquistadors had to help conquer the Native Americans?

13. DISEASES
SMALL POX
Symptoms usually occur about days after you have been infected with the virus. They may include:
Backache
Delirium
Diarrhea
Excessive bleeding
Fatigue
High fever
Malaise
Raised pink rash -- turns into sores that become crusty on day 8 or 9
Severe headache
Vomiting

14. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire
160 Spanish fighters defeated 80,000 Incan warriors

15. Francisco Pizarro

16. Incan Emperor
Defeated by the Spanish is 1530
Ruled 12,000 million people in what is now modern day, Peru

17. Atahualpa

18. Incas Capital
Shaped like a jaguar

19. Cuzco

20. Exchange of physical elements: animals, plants, diseases, weapons, technology, ideals, people, etc.

21. The Columbian Exchange

22. System in which slaves, crops, and manufactures were traded between Africa, the Caribbean, and the American colonies.

23. Triangular Trade

24. LATIN AMERICA CULTURE

25. people of mixed Native American and European ancestry

26. Mestizos

27. People with Spanish parents, but born in Latin America

28. Criollo

29. a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.

30. Mulatto

31. Main religion of Latin America

32. Roman Catholic

33. INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA

34. 1791: led a huge slave revolt against the French in Hispanola
former slave in Haiti; freed in 1777

35. Toussaint L’Ouverture

36. 1813: Liberated Venezuela’s
Over the next few years, he liberated New Granada (now Colombia), Ecuador, Panama, Peru, & Upper Peru (now Bolivia).
El Libertador

37. Simon Bolivar

38. Catholic priest
began the struggle for Mexico’s independence in 1810
Mexico celebrates September 16th as it’s Independence Day.

39. Miguel Hidalgo