History - The Conquistadores

Question 1

What are the conquistadores

Answer 1

The Conquistadores are the Spanish soldiers who conquered Central America.

Question 2

What were the Aztec and Inca empires

Answer 2

In the 15th century, Central America was part of the Aztec Empire. The west coast of South America belonged to the Inca empire. These two divisions had a few dissimilarities and similarities between them.

Question 3

What were the similarities between the Aztec and Inca empires

Answer 3

1. Both of these empires were very civilised in some ways, but uncivilised in others.
2. They had great stone cities, roads and bridges, but hadnt discovered the wheel.
3. They had no metals except gold, silver and copper.
4. Both the empires had weapons of wooden “swords” with sharp stone blades.

Question 4

What were the dissimilarities between the Aztec and Inca empires

Answer 4

1. The Aztecs had a simple kind of picture writing, whilst the Incas had none at all.
2. The Aztecs were a bit more advanced.
3. The Aztecs were often very cruel people, unlike the Incas. This is because, every year the Äztecs killed thousands of prisoners to please their gods.

Question 5

The Aztecs had never seen ____ or ______ before. They were very afraid of _______ . They thought ________________

Answer 5

guns, horses

horses

the rider and the horse were one animal

Question 6

Cortes was ______ by ________. Some of his men had __________ and __________. These diseases were not known in _________. About _________ of the Amerindians died because of them.

Answer 6

infected, disease

measles, smallpox

America.

half

Question 7

IN 1521, Cortes captured the Aztec capital. It was built on an island i a lake. It is now called Mexico City. Soon the whole Aztec empire was a Spanish colony.