Hernando Cortes Exibit
By: Gabriela Reyes
First off, who is Hernando Cortes?
Hernando was a famous Spanish explore that helped colonize the new world or present day The America's. Hernando left Spain to concur new land for new sources of wealth in 1514.ater defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain. Present day Mexico was actually at first named "new Spain" how original, right? Cortes later helped in the expedition of Cuba and used a genius strategy and fought the native peoples with other natives from different country's. Hernando later became the governor of new Spain or "Mexico" in 1522. Cortes later died back in his homeland Spain in 1547.
The beggining- How did Cortes find his way to the new World?
Like many explores, Hernando followed the stars as navigation But how did he do this? Cortes first started using the compass and he looked up at the sky for clarification. Hernando sailed west just like Christopher Columbus to find new land. Cortes would follow his compass west and would also follow the trail of stars leading in the same direction as the compass was pointing. Cool, huh?
Hornando's route to the new world
Hernando set sail from Spain and went straight to what is now called Mexico. Cortes fought the natives or the Aztecs for the land but was ran off. Cortes retreated to Cuba and still wanted to concur Mexico. Despite his warnings he returned and finally conquered in 1519.
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Yellow highlighter- path taken as a return to a location
Black ink- route taken through the new world exploration
Why did he and his home country set on this journey?
Spain was on a mission a s a country to expand territory and gain wealth. Hernando set sail to gain wealth by finding a source in the new world to trade back in the old world. Another large reason why Spain set expedition was to spread their religion around the world which was Catholic. The Spanish diffused their culture along with language on the natives of the new world.
Risks that Hernando took
When Hernando originally conquered the Aztec empire in current day Mexico, he was originally run off by the Aztec re-taking their empire. Cortes was determined to re-take his glory and return to fight the Aztecs but, Diego Velázquez denied his plan. Despite this, Hernando took sail and took 500 men. In the battle he lost 11 ships in total but made it to the Mexican coast in February 1519.
So,what where Hernando's results of exploring?
Hernando created a Spanish and Aztec civilization right where a huge river was located nowadays called Mexico city. Cortes also played a vital part in what the Mexican culture is today; he helped combine the ancient ways of the Aztecs and features of the country Spain and influenced a very common religion in Mexico today, catholic church.
SOURCES-
http://exploretheexplorers.yolasite.com/hernando-cortes.php
http://arcadeworldhistory.wikispaces.com/Adriana+Beckman+Hernan+Cortes
http://www.biography.com/people/hern%C3%A1n-cort%C3%A9s-9258320
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cortes_hernan.shtml
http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/Archives/ED101fa10/jtownley/Spain.html
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