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Spanish Colonization

You can also look the topic Pre-Columbian indigenous societies for more information on this topic

The Story of Indigenous Slavery and Colonization

Teaching Hard History, Learning for Justice 

Colonization and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI)

The Aztecs + Cortes

Inside the Aztec Empire (Video)

Documentary Channel, 2015

Primary Source: Dona Marina, Cortes’ Translator: Painting

Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin.

Primary Source: Mayan Account of the Spanish Conquest

A Mayan poet talks about the Spanish takeover of a different part of Mexico

The Incas + Pizarro

Cajamarca and the End of the Inka Empire (podcast and text)

Stuff You Missed in History Class, 2018

Inca Empire Conquest (article)

PBS: Guns, Germs and Steel, 2005

Collision at Cajamarca (book chapter)

from Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, 1997

Primary Source: View of the Incas From a Conquistador

Pedro de Cieza de Léon: Chronicles of the Incas, 1540

Vanguard High School

317 E 67th St.

New York, NY 10065

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