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    Europeans expanded for economic, political, religious, and technological reasons in the 15th-16th centuries. Economically, they sought spices and luxury goods controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Politically, modern nation-states like Spain were forming. Religiously, they wanted to spread Christianity. Technologically, advances like caravels, the compass, and cannon gave them military advantages over native peoples. Hernando Cortez then used Spanish weapons, cavalry, and war dogs to help defeat the Aztec Empire in Mexico between 1519-1521.

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    Europeans expanded for economic, political, religious, and technological reasons in the 15th-16th centuries. Economically, they sought spices and luxury goods controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Politically, modern nation-states like Spain were forming. Religiously, they wanted to spread Christianity. Technologically, advances like caravels, the compass, and cannon gave them military advantages over native peoples. Hernando Cortez then used Spanish weapons, cavalry, and war dogs to help defeat the Aztec Empire in Mexico between 1519-1521.

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    Europeans expanded for economic, political, religious, and technological reasons in the 15th-16th centuries. Economically, they sought spices and luxury goods controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Politically, modern nation-states like Spain were forming. Religiously, they wanted to spread Christianity. Technologically, advances like caravels, the compass, and cannon gave them military advantages over native peoples. Hernando Cortez then used Spanish weapons, cavalry, and war dogs to help defeat the Aztec Empire in Mexico between 1519-1521.

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    Reasons For European

    Expansion

    Economics
    Food
    European diet
    Luxury Items
    Spices
    access blocked
    Ottoman Empire

    Political Centralization
    By 1500 Modern Nations forming
    Spain:
    Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragorn and
    Isabella of Castile 1469

    Religion
    Proselytize

    Battle Stress

    Technology
    Caravel
    2-3 masted ship

    Compass
    C. 1300 A.D.

    Cannon
    Crecy 1342

    Warfare

    Why is it that small numbers of


    Europeans consistently defeat native
    people in their own lands?

    Warfare
    Western Way of War
    Beginnings

    Progress

    Divorce from Spirituality and myth

    Renaissance
    Rediscovery of
    Science

    Human Potential

    Test Case:
    Hernando Cortez 1485-1547
    Life of a Spanish
    Noble

    Setting Sail
    Landing in Cuba

    Hernando Cortez 14851547


    Invasion of Mexico
    Vera Cruz
    Tlaxcala

    Spanish War in the New World


    Weapons
    Steel based
    armor/weapons
    Arquebus
    Calvary
    Attack Dogs

    Aztecs 1200-1521
    Settled Central
    Mexico c. 1200 as
    mercenaries
    Inherited Toltec
    science
    Concept of Zero
    Complex
    Astronomy

    Aztecs 1200-1521
    Tenochtitlan
    Pop 250,000
    Chirpa
    Causeways

    Aztecs 1200-1521
    Aztec Warfare
    Weapons
    Macuahitl
    Spear Thrower
    (atatl)
    Hand Spear
    Narcotics
    Animal Kinship

    Military Purpose

    Aztecs 1200-1521
    Sacrifice

    Fall of Tenochtitlan
    Montezuma II
    La Noche Triste
    Siege

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