1. The Conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas
C. Barker
S. Goldberg

2. The Aztec Empire
Atzlan: The original homeland of the Aztec peoples in Northwest Mexico

3. The Aztec Empire
Chief Tenoch: chief who led the Aztec people out of Atzlan to Lake Texcoco after receiving a vision from Huitzilopochtli

4. Aztec Empire Huitzilopochtli Principle god of the Aztecs, Sun God
Required Human Sacrifices

5. The Aztec Empire
Lake Texcoco: a swampy lake in central Mexico where the Aztecs built the capitol of Tenochtitlán

6. The Aztec Empire
Chinampas: artificial islands made by piling up mud from the lake bottom

7. The Aztec Empire
Chinampas

8. The Aztec Empire

9. The Aztec Empire

10. Conquest of the Aztecs
Hernan Cortés: Spanish conquistador who founded Vera Cruz and conquered the Aztecs in 1519

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Conquest of the Aztecs Montezuma: god-like ruler of the Aztecs
Taken prisoner by Cortés
Killed in the Aztec revolt of 1520

15. Conquest of the Incas
Francisco Pizarro: Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire in 1533

16. Conquest of the Incas
Incas : Highly civilized nation of people who lived in the mountains of Peru at the time of the Spanish invasion

18. Conquest of the Incas
Atahuallpa: ruler of the Incas at the time of the Spanish invasion

19. Conquest of the Incas

20. Conquest of the Incas