Chapter 3, Section 1: Conquest in the Americas
Use your online textbook in Blackboard to read pages 110-114 and take notes on this sheet by writing down
2-4 bullet points for each section of text and answering the questions.
I. First Encounters in the Americas
a. Meeting the Tainos
b. Guns, Horses and Disease
c. How did the Spanish treat the Tainos?
II. Cortés Conquers Mexico
a. Cortés Advances on the Aztecs
b. Moctezuma Faces a Dilemma
c. Tenochtitlan Falls to the Spanish
d. What impact did the Aztecs’ religious beliefs have on the Spanish approach to the capital?
Chapter 3, Section 1: Conquest in the Americas
III. Pizarro Takes Peru
a. What factors encouraged Spanish success in Peru?
IV. Effects of the Spanish Conquistadors
a. How did Native Americans resist the Europeans?