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Devastation of Indigenous Cultures: Impact of European Conquest in the Americas

Explore the human consequences of European exploration through a case study on the conquest of Mexico. Discover how populations in the Caribbean, Central Mexico, and Peru drastically declined due to genocide, impacting millions of lives. Learn about the devastating effects on the Aztec civilization by Cortes, highlighting the brutality of colonization.

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Devastation of Indigenous Cultures: Impact of European Conquest in the Americas

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  1. Human Consequences of Exploration Case Study: The Conquest of Mexico

  2. Genocide: How and Why? • Caribbean • Population virtually disappeared by 1540 • Central Mexico • 25 million in 1519 to 2 million in 1580 • Peru • 10 million in 1530 to 1.5 million in 1590

  3. Columbus and the Indians “All these people lack . . . Every kind of iron; they are also without weapons, which indeed are unknown; nor are they competent to use them, not on account of deformity of body, for they are well formed, but because they are timid and full of fear.”

  4. Case Study: The Aztecs (Mexica) and Cortes An overview of the Spanish Conquest of mexico

  5. The Aztecs

  6. Maps of Tenochtitlan

  7. Cortes’s Route

  8. Conclusions….

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