Please help me!! Explain how the Columbian Exchange led to the fall of the Aztecs and the
Inca

Explanation:

Aztec, Inca, and the Columbian Exchange:

1. Location of the Aztec Empire – Mexico

2. Describe the Aztec Religion. – Worshipped many gods and sacrificed animal and people to their gods.

3. Describe the location of the Aztec Capital Tenochtitlan. – In the middle of Lake Texcoco.

4. Why would Tenochtitlan be considered difficult to conquer by an outside force? Being located in the middle of a lake

made it difficult for the enemy to get to.

5. How was Cortes able to defeat a civilization of several hundred thousand? They had advanced weapons (guns, cannons,

steel swords) horses, and disease.

6. Describe Montezuma and Cortés’s first meeting. – Montezuma thought that Cortes was a god that had returned. He gave

Cortes gold and welcomed him to the city.

7. Explain the horse’s role in the Spanish conquest. – Since the Aztec had never seen a horse, they thought that a man on a

horse was a god-like creature.

8. What was the Spanish purpose for exploration? (The 3 G’s) Gold, God (spread Christianity), and Glory

9. What happened to Tenochtitlan after the Aztec Empire fell? – The Spanish burned it to the ground and built Mexico City.

10. Describe the Aztec farming system (name it) - They farmed maize, squash, avocados, beans, and tomatoes on floating

gardens called chinampas.

11. Location of the Inca – In the Andes Mountain of Peru, parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile.

12. Describe Pizarro and Atahualpa’s first meeting. - They were invited to a feast where the Inca were ambushed, and

Atahualpa was captured.

13. Explain Atahualpa’s negotiations for release and the results. - Atahualpa offered Pizarro a room full of gold for his

release. Pizarro took the gold and killed Atahualpa.

14. Describe the Inca farming system (name it) The Inca used a terrace system of farming (or built steps into the mountain

to create flat land).

15. Columbian Exchange – The exchange of goods, ideas, and disease between the old world and new worl

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