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    Spanish Colonies in the New

    World

    1-17-2012

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    Conquest of the Aztecs Led by Hernando

    Corts Sailed to Mexico in

    search of Gold in 1519 Allied with Native

    Americans against

    Montezuma, leader of the Aztecs

    Aztec Empire fell in

    1521

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    Aztec Legend of Quetzcoatl Feathered serpent

    god He would return to

    rule over the Aztecs as a king

    Cortez asQuetzcoatl????

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz3LyIJNoF8

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    Spanish Advantages:technology, hatred of the Aztecsamong Native Americans, Aztec

    belief in Quetzcoatl

    Aztec Advantages:numbers, knowledge of terrain

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    Conquest of the Incas Led by Francisco

    Pizarro Less than 200 soldiers Captured Atahualpa, the

    leader and executedhim

    Without a leader, theIncan Empire crumbled

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    Explorers Hernando de Soto

    Florida Francisco Coronado

    New Mexico Faced Native

    American resistance Searched for gold Had little success

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    Settlement of New Spain Pueblos towns that were the centers of

    farming and trade Plaza center of the town where people

    came to do business and go to church Presidio fort where soldiers lived

    Mission

    religious settlement Encomienda a grant of land to a

    Spaniard which included the right to taxand use Native American labor

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    Columbian Exchange Trade of goods between the Americas and

    Europe/Africa/Asia Europeans introduced pigs, cattle, and

    horses, plants (daisies and dandelions)and diseases

    Americans introduced potatoes, corn,beans, tomatoes, peanuts, squash, andsurvival skills

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    Columbian Exchange

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