Native+Americans

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__**Aztecs: **__ The Aztecs were a native empire that spanned the area of central Mexico. They were considered savages by Cortes and his force of 600 Spaniards. The expansive Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was sacked by Cortes upon a second raid and the emperor Montezuma was killed. The main reasons for Cortes’ success were the gunpowder weapons and the smallpox epidemic that ravaged the Aztec population. After the Aztec capital fell the empire collapsed and the Spanish set up the Viceroyalty of New Spain over the land that used to be Aztec. (Tommy Bakken)

Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River, and Appalachian Mountains. They got their name from the mounds they built for a wide variety of purposes, including burials and ceremonies. (Kuczak)
 * Mound Builders** - Lived all over southeast North America, as well as around the

Mound Builders was placed in the Native Americans category because they are mound builders are Native Americans, and they did not live within or close to any one specific colony--they were scattered. <<A mound built by the mound builders.


 * Mississippi Culture:** The Woodland Indians had the greatest food resources of any region of the continent. They grew corn and grain in the rich lands of the Mississippi River Valley. They were farmers, hunter gatherers, and fishermen. They had permanent settlements and large trading networks and Cahokia, near today's St. Louis, was a city with a pop. of 40,000 and a great complex of large mounds. This term is under Native Americans because it refers to the culture of Indians living near the Mississippi river valley.

__Mesitzos__: mixed European and Native American heritage.

Native Americans Category: It belongs under the topic of Native Americans because Mestizos are the descendants of European and Native American blood. It is the mixing of two different races, resulting in a creation of a new mixed culture. Typically, this mixture of people was very rare due to the subordination of Native Americans by the European colonists' belief that they were the superior race. The shortage of European women immigrants led to the rising population of Mestizos.

Above pictured is a picture of a European father with a Native American mother with their Mestizo child.


 * Pocahontas**, also known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Native American whose father was the chief of the Powhatan Community. Pocahontas is well known for assisting settlers at Jamestown. She, being an ally of the settlers, was converted to Christianity and married notable tobacco farmer John Rolfe.**(Clarke)**

Pocahontas belongs in the Native Americans section because before converting too Christianity she was an Native American who fought fiercely with the settlers to defend Jamestown This is Pocahontas after she was was converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe Hernan Cortes: Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador who lead to the demise of the Aztec Empire. He was also the man who brought large amounts of Mexico under the rule of the Spanish King. He was part of the first phase of Conquistadors who lead to the Spanish colonization of the Americas. I placed this in the native american page because Hernan was the cause of the fall of the Aztec Empire.

This is a Picture of what Hernan would have looked like. Mike Solberg Squanto- Was a Patuxet Native American. He assisted the[|Pilgrims] after their first winter in the New World. He was their only way of survival. Squanto learned English after escaping an attempt to be sold into slavery and joining the Newfoundland[|Company]. We chose the “Native American” category because Squanto was a Native America. This is a typical Squanto indian. (Mary G and Anne-Marie P)