Transcript The Conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas

The Conquest of the Aztecs
and the Incas
C. Barker
S. Goldberg
The Aztec Empire
• Atzlan: The original homeland of
the Aztec peoples in Northwest
Mexico
The Aztec Empire
• Chief Tenoch: chief who led the
Aztec people out of Atzlan to
Lake Texcoco after receiving a
vision from Huitzilopochtli
Aztec Empire
• Huitzilopochtli
– Principle god of the Aztecs, Sun God
– Required Human Sacrifices
The Aztec Empire
• Lake Texcoco: a swampy lake
in central Mexico where the
Aztecs built the capitol of
Tenochtitlán
The Aztec Empire
• Chinampas: artificial islands
made by piling up mud from the
lake bottom
The Aztec Empire
Chinampas
The Aztec Empire
The Aztec Empire
Conquest of the Aztecs
• Hernan Cortés:
Spanish
conquistador who
founded Vera Cruz
and conquered the
Aztecs in 1519
Conquest of the Aztecs
• Conquistadors: • “We came here
Spanish word for
conqueror/
explorers who
expanded the
Spanish domain
in the New World
to serve God and
the King and also
to get rich.”
- One of Cortés’ men
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
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
Conquest of the Aztecs
• Montezuma: god-like ruler of the
Aztecs
– Taken prisoner by Cortés
– Killed in the Aztec revolt of 1520
Conquest of the Incas
• Francisco
Pizarro:
Spanish
conquistador
who conquered
the Incan
Empire in 1533
Conquest of the Incas
• Incas : Highly civilized nation of
people who lived in the mountains
of Peru at the time of the Spanish
invasion
Conquest of the Incas
• Atahuallpa:
ruler of the
Incas at the
time of the
Spanish
invasion
Conquest of the Incas
Conquest of the Incas