AztecsAztecs

Spanish burned the Aztecs records and tried to wipe out all traces of the older civilizations

The Aztecs did the same thing 90 years earlier

The Aztecs were recent arrivals in an ancient country themselves

MesoamericaMesoamerica

The Reign of SpainThe Reign of Spain

Spanish conquistadors conquered the two greatest New World empires, The Mexicas and The Incas.

Shipped vast amounts of gold and silver back to Seville.

New Laws, its illegal to enslave the indigenous peoples and banning new encomiendas.

Christianity under Christianity under IsabellaIsabella

In 1492, the last Muslim territory under her control.

Isabella decreed that all subjects who didn’t become Christians and had to therefore leave the country

Charles VCharles V

Spain became its most powerful nation during Charles' reign.

Spain had strong Catholic history

Anti-French and anti-Muslim

Decades of warfare and economic difficulties

1555, he divided his lands between his son, Philip II

Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl

whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and has the meaning of "feathered-serpent”

"Teotihuacan arose as a new religious center in the Mexican Highland, around the time of Christ”

Aftermath Revolution Aftermath Revolution

1916 the Revolution almost over

Obregon entered Mexico City in 1914.

The First World War had broke out two weeks earlier.

Pancho Villa Pancho Villa