Across
- 2. This Spanish navigator was responsible for the succesful campaign in Mesoamerica.
- 4. This Nahuatl woman was sold as a slave to the Maya, and she slowly became a close guide and counselor to Hernan Cortes.
- 6. This was the site to one of the most gruesome massacres in Mexican history, where Cortes presumably killed 3000 - 6000 people in one night.
- 8. This is the action of blocking a city from outside help or resources, basically starving a city to death. This is what Cortés did to Tenochtitlán.
- 9. The Spanish originally believed that the city of Tenochtitlán was full of this metal.
- 11. Beast of burden unknown to the Aztecs, which at first made them believe they were 'hellish' animals.
- 12. Recognized as the official language of the Mexica Empire (and other communities), it is still spoken today.
- 13. This is one of the few societies that the Aztecs did NOT conquer.
- 14. The _______ wars (or flowered Wars) were a traditional/ceremonial violent event in which the two sides aimed to capture, not kill.
Down
- 1. This is the night in which Hernán Cortés was run off from Tenochtitlán, and when he reportedly cried over all the blood spilled.
- 3. The type of tree where Cortés supposedly cried.
- 5. This god was said to return to the Mexica one day and guide them to a Golden Age. According to legend, the Mexica tlatoani confused Cortés with him.
- 6. This navigator originally believed he had discovered a new trade route to the Indies.
- 7. Tlaxcalan leader that united with the Spanish to defeat the Mexica...then he was called a traitor by the Spanish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 10. This is the landing place of Cortés, where he founded the first Spanish settlement in the New World.
- 15. Moctezuma had a total of ________ omens that predicted the arrival of the Spanish.