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Conquistadors
{Cortez and Pizarro}
By: Ellie Murray
Standards
• 5.2 Identify the three major pre-columbian civilizations
that existed in central and South America (Maya, Aztec,
and Inca) and their locations. Describe their political
structures, religious practices, and use of slaves.
• 5.4 Explain why the Aztec and Inca civilizations declined
in the 16th century.
• A. the encounters between Cortez and Montezuma.
• B. the encounters between Pizarro and the Incas.
• C. the goals of the Spanish conquistadors.
• D. the effects of European diseases, particularly
smallpox, throughout the Western hemisphere.
Aztecs
• Central Mexico- Valley of
Mexico.
• Capital- Tenochtitlan { today in
Mexico City.}
• Polytheistic- believed in many
gods like rain gods, sun gods,
and crop gods and worship a
god called Quetzacoatl.
• Controlled many other tribes,
forced them to give them
money.
• Used other tribes as slaves
and human sacrifice.
• Aztecs brought down
{smallpox} a.k.a chicken pox
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• On the Mexican
coastline a.k.a
Yucatan peninsula.
• More than one major
city- was much harder
for conquistadors to
overthrow.
• Did not contain as
much gold as they
wanted more.
• Belief in many gods
{polytheistic}.
• Had slaves, who
could sometimes gain
there beliefs.
Mayas
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Incas
• South America, Andes Mts.,
Peru etc.
• Capital: Cuzco.
• Polytheistic: Belief in many
gods.
• No written language, but they
spoke words.
• Language { Used knots as
message.}
• Practiced animal sacrifices,
and on special.
• Occasions human sacrifice for
the children.
• Inca Civilization was a big
thing for all the people almost
20 million people participated.
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Cortez
• Traveled with 500 men
and 16 horses to conquer
Aztec people in there
capital of Tenochtitlan in
1519.
• Tenochtitlan is an unusual
city because it was built
in the middle of lake on a
series of islands.
• Cortez took Montezuma
hostage, and Montezuma
was killed in the fight that
followed.
• The Spanish destroyed
Tenochtitlan and created
a new city , Mexico city
that still exists today!
Pizarro
• Traveled with 180 other
men and 27 horses into
Peru to conquer the Inca
civilization.
• Incas taken over by the
Pizarro and the Spanish
in 1531 because they
were fighting a civil war
{when two or more
groups in one country are
fighting with each other.}
• Pizarro demanded that a
room be filled with gold
and silver and the
Athualpa would be .
• Pizarro tricked Incas and
after they delivered the
ransom, he did not return
to Athualpa and the Incan
emperor was eventually
killed!
The Legacy of the Conquistadors
• How did the Spanish explorers and conquistadors
change Central and South America forever? (Where
do we see the lasting effect of these conquistadors
even in 2011?)
• Answer: Today in current time Central South
America talks Spanish . Today in current time the
majority of peoples in central and South America are
Christian, and no longer worship their native gods. A
lot of Aztec, Inca, and Maya culture and traditions
have disappeared forever.
The End!!!!!!