Chapter 10 – A Deadly Meeting
Answer the following questions to create notes on this chapter.
1. What is a conquistador?
2. What was Spain like when Cortes left at the age of 19?
3. Why was Cortes upset when the governor of Hispaniola gave him a farm?
4. Describe the location of Hispaniola using present day geographical references.
5. What was the Conquistadors’ Formula for conquering a new land?
6. How would you compare Cortes in the painting by Weiditz versus the painting done by Diego Rivera?
7. Give an example of cause and effect in our school.
8. How did Cortes prepare to explore the Yucatan peninsula?
9. What did Cortes do upon arriving in Mexico?
10. How did Aztec weaponry compare to Spanish weapons?
11. How did the Aztecs find out about guns, and what did they think of them?
12. It is often military technology that leads to success in battle, but at what cost? Albert Einstein said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” What does he mean by this, and do you agree with his view? Has this become more, or less, true over time, as technology has “advanced”? (1-2 paragraphs)
13. How did the horse give the Spanish a military advantage?
14. How did disease contribute to the conquest of Tenochtitlan?
15. What is a pandemic and what are two pandemics from our curriculum this year?
16. How were the Aztecs and Spanish similar, according to Ronald Wright?
17. Who is Malinche and how did she come to be Cortes’s intermediary?
18. What did Dona Marina do for Cortes?
19. What is the message of the artist about Malinche in the portrait on page 229?
20. Who did Cortes encounter on his way to Tenochtitlan and how was he received in each place?
21. What is CSIS?
22. What was Moctezuma’s reception of Cortes like?
23. What did the Spanish do to Moctezuma?
24. How did Cortes deal with Velazquez’s forces?
25. How did Moctezuma die?
26. What factors contributed to the success of the Spanish force which finally took Tenochtitlan?