SkillBuilder
Use the SkillBuilder activities to develop these Historical concepts and skills: • HISTORICAL QUESTIONS • CHRONOLOGY
• USING HISTORICAL SOURCES • CONTINUITY AND CHANGE • CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES • HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE • COMMUNICATING
1502 Montezuma II
1520 An outbreak of smallpox,
1522 Tenochtitlan is rebuilt and named Mexico City. Declared the capital of the Spanish colony in the Americas — ‘New Spain’.
becomes the ruler of the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire is at its most powerful.
1469 Montezuma I dies and is succeeded by Ahuizotu.
1492 Columbus ‘discovers’ the Americas.
introduced by the Europeans, sweeps through the population of Tenochtitlan, killing up to half the population.
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1440 Montezuma I begins his rule.
1506 Columbus dies.
1519 Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors arrive at Tenochtitlan.
1521 Cortes claims the city of Tenochtitlan for Spain.
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