Chapter 5 - Kendall Hunt
... where he picked up additional supplies and men. He departed for Mexico on February 18, 1519. He was only 34 years old at the time. Cortés sailed from Cuba in eleven ships with 550 soldiers, some 200 Cuban Indians, a few small cannons, and sixteen horses. He crossed the turbulent seas and landed his ...
... where he picked up additional supplies and men. He departed for Mexico on February 18, 1519. He was only 34 years old at the time. Cortés sailed from Cuba in eleven ships with 550 soldiers, some 200 Cuban Indians, a few small cannons, and sixteen horses. He crossed the turbulent seas and landed his ...
Explorer Fact Sheet - 7
... reinforcements that Cortes would need to conquer the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan. Cortes realized that some of his men wanted to return to Cuba. The men did not believe they could walk through 200 miles of jungle and swamps, climb mountains, avoid thousands of hostile Indians and attack the A ...
... reinforcements that Cortes would need to conquer the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan. Cortes realized that some of his men wanted to return to Cuba. The men did not believe they could walk through 200 miles of jungle and swamps, climb mountains, avoid thousands of hostile Indians and attack the A ...
The Quest for Empire Chapter 6
... He returns a message to the group that yes he had seen the “Seven Cities of Cibola.” Word gets back to the group that Esteban was killed, the expedition continues into New Mexico and Arizona. As the expedition reaches the border of New Mexico and Arizona they see the cities. ...
... He returns a message to the group that yes he had seen the “Seven Cities of Cibola.” Word gets back to the group that Esteban was killed, the expedition continues into New Mexico and Arizona. As the expedition reaches the border of New Mexico and Arizona they see the cities. ...
Three Worlds Meet - Duplin County Schools
... The City of Cahokia, with a population of more than 30,000, was the center of a farming society that arose on the Mississippi bottomlands near present-day St. Louis in the tenth century CE. The Cahokians built dozens of vast earthen mound covering six square miles, evidence of their complex social ...
... The City of Cahokia, with a population of more than 30,000, was the center of a farming society that arose on the Mississippi bottomlands near present-day St. Louis in the tenth century CE. The Cahokians built dozens of vast earthen mound covering six square miles, evidence of their complex social ...
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.