The Age of Exploration

Flashcards about the Age of Exploration

Conquistadors

Spanish conquerors/explorers who sailed to the Americas to obtain gold, silver, and other treasures

Conquerors

A new group of explorers named Conquistadors emerged during this period. Spanish for .

How Historians describe Cortes

To describe an intelligent, crafty, deceptive, ruthless, violent, and lucky person.

Tenochtitlan

Modern day Mexico City

350,000

The Aztec Population in Tenochtitlan

Why did the Aztecs make sacrifices?

To Keep the sun moving across the sky and preserve life, the Aztecs had to feed Huitzilopochtli w/ human hearts & blood

Smallpox

Disease unknowingly brought by Cortes and his men into Mexico, which the Aztecs had no tolerance against.

Malinche

Cortes Translator

Quetzalcoatl

A white, bearded god, would come from the to take back the land that was his.

Montezuma

The last king of the Aztec Empire

Cortes' Advantages over the millions of Indians?

Guns, horses, disease and luck