Vaqueros
English word for Vaquero
Cowboy
Spain
The reason the Spanish wanted to conquer the Aztecs
Gold
Aztec floating gardens
Chinampas
Photo of progress on visual project
The country. that used to control California
Spain/Mexico
Full name of the expedition leader to Tenochtitlan
Hernan Cortes
What Cortes did with his ships when they landed in Mexico
destroy them
The reason the Aztecs had to two channels in their canals
One was for cleaning
Reason gold was not a big deal for the Aztecs
they had too much of it
One danger of working as vaquero was this
lightening,
thieves,
getting gored
Friendly
One thing the Spanish brought with them to the Americas
Horses, cattle, metal tools, guns
Dykes/sluice gates
What the Aztecs used to make their weapons
Obsidian
The most popular genre of films int he United States
Cowboy movies
What Cortes did to Moctezuma and the nobles
Kidnap/kill
Where Cortes sailed from in the Americas before reaching Mexico
Cuba
How the Aztecs connected Tenochtitlan with the mainland
Causeways
Reason why a human heart keeps beating after it is removed
Conductive arrhythmia
Rodeos, saddles, chivaras, whips, mountain oysters
The top 3 reasons the Aztecs were defeated by the Spanish
Allies, disease, weapons
How Moctezuma Died
See Video
How the Aztecs were able to build such large temples in the mud
Anchoring
Reason why the Aztecs had to runaway and live in the middle of a lake
Sacrificed a king's daughter and danced with her skin on