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Task 1- Complete the following notes using your textbook pg 61-63.

1. What were the 3 goals of
exploration?

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2. Missionaries means
Task 2- Complete the explorer chart using your textbook pg 62-63
Explore Country
r
Sailed for
Columb
us

Year

Goal

Outcome

Vespuc
ci
Balboa
Magell
an
Task 3- Complete the following notes using your textbook pg 65-66
List the reasons why the
Conquistadors were able to
conquer much of South America

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Task 4-Read the passages below and answer the questions that
follow.
PASSAGE 1One day, the Spanish came to Mexico by boat and a bearded white man
wearing iron and riding a horse came to shore. His name was Hernando
Cortes (1485-1547) and he was a Conquistador, which means a Spanish
conqueror. The Aztecs thought he was the legendary man-god, Quetzalcoatl

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(KET-sal-ko-ATL), who died 300 years earlier. Cortes was sent from Spain on
a journey with one purpose: to find gold. The king of the Aztecs was
Montezumo 1480?-1520), and he didnt think this was Quetzalcoatl, but
some stranger. He was very worried that this man in iron and riding a horse
was in Mexico for no good. He was probably right. Cortes and his Spanish
men marched from town to town, killing townspeople and destroying the
will of the population. Once, in a town called Cholulu, Cortes asked the
headmen to come to the town square to negotiate a deal. When the
hundreds of them came with no weapons, Cortes and his small army killed
each and every one of the Cholulu men with cannons and crossbows. The
Spanish moved from city to city, doing the same thing that they did in
Cholulu until the made it to the capital, Mexico City. The Aztec empire was
destroyed and the Spanish controlled nearly everything.
1. Which Conquistador is this passage discussing?_____________________
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3. What Native American group did he met in the New World?
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4. What was the Aztecs first impression of Cortes?
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5. What was Montezumos first impression of Cortes?___________________
6. In paragraph form, which first impression of Cortes was right
Montezumo or the other Aztecs? Give at least 2 reasons to explain
your posisiton.
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PASSAGE 2The other major Spanish Conquistador was a man named Francisco Pizzaro
(1474?-1541). Like Cortes, Pizzaro also came for gold. When gold was hard
to find, Pizzaro had to think of other was to pay back the people who paid
for his journey. So, he turned Incas into slaves, stole spices and farm
products from the land. He did many of the same things to the Incas that
Columbus did to the Arawaks and Cortes did to the Aztecs.
1. Which Conquistador is this passage discussing?_____________________

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2. What was this Conquisrador look for?

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3. What Native American group did he meet in the New World?
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4. What was Pizzaro looking for in the New World?___________________
5. Was he successful?____________________________________________
6. In paragraph form, How did Pizzaro treat the Incas? Give at least 2
reasons to explain your posisiton.
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