Hernando Cortés : Spanish invader of Mexico

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

John Paul, Zronik

Summary:

Learn about the Spanish conqueror's invasion of Mexico.

Year Published:

2006-2007

Series:

In the footsteps of explorers

Physical Description:

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 29 cm.

Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Gold or fame -- Spain's new world -- Cortés early life -- Mayan Mexido -- Aztec empire -- Tenochtitlan -- Defeat of the Azted -- Conquistador's life -- Spanish conquest -- Cortés legacy -- Glossary and index.

For gold and fame -- Spain's new world -- Cortés' early life -- Mayan Mexico -- The Aztec Empire -- To Tenochtitlan -- Defeat of the Aztec -- A conquistador's life -- Spanish conquest -- Cortés' legacy -- Glossary and index.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 6.9 1.0 111942

Worldviews in Conflict: The Spanish and the Aztecs Gr. 8+

Social Studies, Grade Eight

Personal Subject:

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.

Subject:

Aztecs -- First contact with Europeans.

Conquerors -- Mexico.

Indigenous peoples -- Mexico.

Conquerors -- Mexico -- Biography.

Explorers -- Mexico -- Biography.