Transcript Mexico - carnesneil

Mexico
Chapter 10 sec.1
Monument to the Race Mexico City
Mexico before Cortez
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Many Great Indian Cultures
Maya
Toltecs
Olmec
Aztecs
Teotihuacanos
Mayans
◊ Empire was in
Southern Mexico Chiapas, Yucatan
Peninsula
◊ Empire disintegrated
for unknown
reasons
Teotihuacanos
◊ Were before Aztecs
or Mayas
◊ Lived in vicinity of
present day Mexico
City
◊ Largest pyramids in
Mexico.
Toltecs
◊ Group of Indians
near Mexico City
◊ Were conquered by
Aztecs
Aztecs
◊ Came to Mexico City
in 1325
◊ Created the city of
Tenochtitlan on the
top of a lake
◊ Were conquered by
Cortes in 1521
◊ Practiced human
sacrifice
Hernan Cortez - Conquerer of
Mexico
Cortez in Mexico
◊ Landed in VeraCruz
in 1519
◊ Made his way to
Tenochtitlan
◊ Met Moctezuma,
leader of Aztecs
Cortez in Tenochtitlan
◊ Cortes arrived in Tenochtitlan with over
500 Spaniards and thousands of Indians
allies.
◊ Moctezuma gave him gold
◊ Cortes imprisoned Moctezuma
◊ Cortes & Spaniards ran out of
Tenochtitlan by Aztecs, Moctezuma
killed
Cortes in Mexico
◊ Returned to Tenochtitlan with more
Spaniards and thousands more Indians
◊ Defeated Aztecs and tortured the last
Aztec emperor, Cuahtemoc, to death
◊ Destroyed Tenochtitlan and built Mexico
City over the top of it.
Spanish over Indians
◊ Why?
◊ Superior weapons
◊ Aztecs mistreated other Indians, who
joined with Cortez (Sacrifices)
◊ Horses
◊ Germs
Malinche
◊ Cortez translator
and girlfriend
◊ Together, they had
the first Mestizo
◊ Today 85% of
Mexicans are
Mestizos
◊ 10% Indian
◊ 5% white
Mestizos
Notequiz
◊ 1. Who was Cortez’s girlfriend?
◊ 2. Who was the last Aztec emperor?
◊ 3. Ethnically, what are the majority of
Mexicans today?
◊ 4. What are two reasons the Spanish
defeated the Aztecs?
◊ 5. What was the name of the Aztec capital?
◊ 6. Where did Cortez build Mexico City?
◊ 7. In what part of Mexico were the Mayans?
◊ 8. Who was the Aztec emperor who was
stoned to death?