THE CONQUISTADORS: THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE. Hernan Cortés- 1485-1547 From Medallion, Spain Family was hidalgo- minor nobility, not rich Studied law.
Lecture 2: Encounters and Collisions. European Expansion and the Age of Discovery TERMS and IDENTIFICATIONS: caravel, Hernando Cortés, The Columbian Exchange,
Daily Life in Tenochtitlán. Tenochtitlán was the center of the Aztec Empire (approx.1325-1521)