Hernan Cortes Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He led the expedition that toppled the Aztec Empire, with Indigenous allies and a smallpox epidemic as his army. This interactive biography gives students the full Hernan Cortes: a Spanish law student turned adventurer who burned his ships, made allies of his enemies' enemies, and wrote his own bestselling account of the conquest while the original Nahua sources tell a very different story. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and Nahua-authored Florentine Codex folios, from the Extremadura countryside through the march on Tenochtitlan, the Noche Triste, the siege, and the long aftermath - A dual-track timeline that sets Cortes's own life against the world he moved through: the Reconquista, the Spanish settlement of the Caribbean, the Aztec expansion under Moctezuma, and the devastating epidemic that preceded the Spanish arrival - The march from the coast to Tenochtitlan drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and place markers, showing the route through Tlaxcala - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: Moctezuma, Malinche, the Tlaxcalan and Totonac allies, and the rival Spanish governor Velazquez - Spanish and Nahua primary sources side by side, each with a caution about perspective and what each document can and cannot prove, plus close reading prompts - A fifteen-question check for understanding with explanations Honest about the cost. This resource treats the conquest as contemporary scholarship does: as
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