Post on 07-Aug-2015
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CHAPTER 1: Spaniards and Native Americans (Prehistory- 1521)
Mexicanos, by Manuel Gonzales
by Jake Crider
European Exploration of the New world
• Christopher Columbus
• Europeans saw the America’s as “virgin” territory
• Mestizos - people of mixed race; Native Americans and Europeans
Mesoamerica
• pre-Columbian civilizations
• most advanced - Mayan - downfall political divide
• Aztecs - great empire
• Tenochtitlan
Conquest: Spaniards v. Amerindians
• Hernan Cortes - Spanish conquistador, conquered Aztecs
• Moctezuma - Aztec King