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2/15 Aim: How did the Conquistadores conquer the Aztecs and the Incas? Do Now: Analyze the painting to the left. Describe what you see happening. Then, complete the journal entry on your handout. The Conquistadores (conquerors) • Lured to the new world by rumors of gold. • 1519-1521 Hernando Cortes, of Spain, hears that the Aztecs have a wealthy empire in central Mexico. He conquers Montezuma and his empire with 600 men and with the help of Aztec enemies from surrounding villages. • 1533 Francisco Pizarro, also of Spain, conquered the Incan empire with 200 men. How did they do it? • The Spanish had superior weapons including guns and cannons. The Natives had only bows and arrows. • Disease including measles, mumps, and smallpox, killed hundreds of thousands by the time Cortes Launched his counter attack. A similar situation occurred with Pizarro and the Incas. • Cortes, with the help of his translator La Malinche, learned that some natives resented the Aztecs and he convinced the Natives to fight on his side. • The Aztecs may have believed that Cortes was a god, and invited him in to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.