Slide 1 FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE Slide 2  Led by Hernán Cortés, the Spanish landed on the Yucatan peninsula in 1519. SPANISH ENCOUNTER THE AZTECS Slide 3  Cortés…

Slide 1 Slide 2 THE MAYAN, AZTECS AND INCA Slide 3 MAYAN Slide 4 Stretched from southern Mexico into northern Central America Slide 5 Maya Create Urban Kingdoms By 250, culture…

Slide 1 THE AZTECS Slide 2 THEIR LOCATION The Aztecs were a great nation of nomadic warriors who traveled Mexico about 700 years ago in search of a land to call their own.…

Slide 1 Slide 2 THE PRE-COLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS MAYAAZTECINCA Slide 3 THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION Slide 4 Where were the Maya located? The Maya were located mainly in the Yucatan…

Slide 1 ALL ABOUT AZTECS Your goal today is to be able to define: Aztecs, Tenochtitlan, Hernan Cortes, and Montezuma. You should also be able to describe the encounter and…

Slide 1 SOUTH AMERICA ANCIENT HISTORY Slide 2 MESOAMERICAN EMPIRES MESOAMERICAN LOCATION NOTABLE EMPIRE ACHIEVEMENTS Maya The Yucatan Peninsula, present-day Mexico, Belize,…

Slide 1 SS6H1 Describe the impact of European contact on Latin America SS6H2 Explain the development of Latin America and the Caribbean from European colonies to independent…

Slide 1 MÉXICO Slide 2 INTRODUCTION Capital: Mexico City Population: 115 million Official language: Spanish Main languages spoken: Spanish, Nahuatl, Mayan, Zapotec, Mixtec,…