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Friday, September 16, 2011

Website Spotlight: Conquistadors


Website URL: http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/

Introductory Note:

Welcome to one in a series of posts which spotlight quality websites that I use with my U.S. History survey course students at Azusa Pacific University to enrich the regular material in our learning modules.

In this post, I limit myself to those specific aspects of the website which I find fit particularly well within our face-to-face class sessions (each student is required to bring a laptop to class) or as the basis for the students' regularly-assigned written reactions.

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Click on Cortes.
http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/cortes/cortes_flat.html

To explore the Cortes segment of this website, click on each of the nine icons in the left sidebar.

Within each of the nine categories outlined below, click on each of the three subheads listed at the top of the screen.

1. Aztec Empire: [1517-1519: First Contact]
A Fragile State
Hernan Cortes
Yucatan Expedition

2. Cortes Expedition: [February 1519, Cortes defies the Governor]
Expedition force
Malinche
Cortes route

3. Montezuma's Messengers [April 20, 1519: A Display of Force]
Royal greeting
Montezuma II
Human sacrifice

4. From Explore to Conquer: [Cortes burns his boats]
Stunned Aztecs
Lust for gold
Queztalcalatl

5. Spaniards in Tenochtitlan: [November 1519: The most beautiful thing in the world]
Tenochtitlan
Spanish eyewitnesses
Montezuma's speech

6. Cortes Seizes Power [November 1519: Montezuma arrested]
Spanish horror
Aztec people
Marketplace

7. War Breaks Out [June 1520: Massacre at Tenochtitlan]
Massacre eyewitness
Montezuma's death
Noche Triste

8. Siege of Tenochtitlan [December 1520: Siege, Starvation, & Smallpox]
Cortes letter
The great rash
Siege eyewitnesses

9. Fall of the Aztecs [The Last Stand: An Aztec Iliad]
Fall eyewitness
Aztec lament
Cortes fate

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Learn more about the Aztecs:
http://www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/mexico/mexico.htm

A. Montezuma and the Aztecs
Aztec Life and Times>>[more--7 pages]
The Aztec Empire>>[more]--4 pages

B. Cortes and the Spanish
The Promise of the New World>>[ more--3 pages]
Cortes the Conquistador>>[more--3 pages]

C. Legacy of the Conquest
Two Worlds Meet>>[more--6 pages]
Cortes' Legacy>>[more--6 pages]

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Concluding Note:

I hope you will use this blog post in conjunction with both the modules on my Learning Professor wiki and the numerous other posts in my Website Spotlight series.

1. The website spotlighted in this post fits within the following U.S. History survey course module on the wiki:
 http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Exploration

2. The other blog posts in my Website Spotlight series--chronologically displayed by U.S. History survey course module-- can be found on this wiki page:
http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/WEBSITE+SPOTLIGHT

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