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PBS Conquisatdor Video

Join Michael Wood as he sails back half a millennium to a time when the Americas were "new" and Spain was a superpower.

Below you will see some questions you can answer to help you follow along with the video and better unserstand the information.

Conquistadors

 

The Fall of the Aztecs

 

1.      Was Hernando Cortez trained by the military?

2.      How was Hernando Cortez’s trip funded?

3.      How many ships and men were involved in his journey? 

4.      Where did they land?

5.      Why was Malinche so important to Cortez?

6.      Who is Montezuma?

7.      How did Cortez ensure that his men would not abandon him?

8.      As Cortez headed inland how many men did he take with him?

9.      What kind of trouble did they encounter crossing the mountains? 

10.  What motivated Cortes’s men to keep going as they traveled in the mountains?

11.  Why would it be important to get allies before he got to Mexico City?

12.  Who (what) does Montezuma think Cortez is?

13.  What happened to Montezuma when he was taken prisoner? 

14.  When Cortez escaped how many men did he lose?

15.  Of the men who survived who was Cortez the most grateful for? 

16.  How did Cortez plan on defeating the Aztec’s? 

 

Francisco Pizarro The Fall of the Inca

 

1.      Who(what) did the Inca worship? 

2.      Who is Atahualpa?

3.      How were the Inca connected between towns? 

4.      What kind of food did the Inca give Pizarro? 

5.      How did Pizarro justify taking over the Inca? 

6.      About how big was Atahualpa’s army? 

7.      Did the Inca think the Spanish were gods?

8.      Of all the Spanish Atahualpa wanted left alive who were they?

9.      When Atahualpa is captured what does he say he will do to be released? 

10.  Why does Atahualpa allow Pizarro to travel freely in his empire? 

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