European Exploration of the Americas by https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw By: Caroline Dietrich en-us 2019-02-15 19:59:26 UTC 2025-10-10 16:56:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Aztec Empire cd35416 https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331895857 •Capital: Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)
•Population: 15 million
•Like the Inca, they united small communities under a single government.
]]> 2019-02-15 20:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331895857 Inca Empire cd35416 https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331895878 •Capital: Cuzco (Peru)
•Population: As many as ten million
•Created many important cultural and scientific  advances
]]> 2019-02-15 20:00:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331895878 Native North Americans cd35416 https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331895993 •Not as advanced as the societies in the south.
•By 1400, there was an estimated 7 million Native Americans in what is now the United States.
]]> 2019-02-15 20:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331895993 European explorers were drawn to North America to… cd35416 https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331896357 1.Gain wealth
2.Search for the Northwest Passage
3.Find rich Native American civilizations
]]> 2019-02-15 20:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331896357 How did they fall? cd35416 https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331896478 •The Spanish made alliances with the Aztec and Inca empires’ enemies, which weakened them.
•In 1521, Cortes conquers the Aztec empire.
•In 1531, Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca empire.
•Other factors such as disease played a big roll in the fall of the Aztec and Inca empires
]]> 2019-02-15 20:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331896478 cd35416 https://padlet.com/cd35416/z2reh0hgjsdw/wish/331896659 •Since Columbus arrived, the population of Native Americans went from 5-15 million, to fewer than 238,000.
•European diseases spread and killed millions of Native Americans.
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