Cortez and the Harvest of Empire Master

Conquerors and Victims: The Image of America Forms (1500-1800) “There seems little doubt that [the native population] equaled or surpassed that of Europe. Most likely, it was around 60 million; some scholars place it as high as 110 million.” 25 million alone in and around the valley of Mexico Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire, p 4:

Conquerors and Victims: The Image of America Forms (1500-1800) “There seems little doubt that [the native population] equaled or surpassed that of Europe. Most likely, it was around 60 million; some scholars place it as high as 110 million.” 25 million alone in and around the valley of Mexico Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire , p 4

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Black Plague: 14th and 15th centuries Reduced population of Europe by an estimated 30% to 60% Juan Gonzales, Harvest, p 6 :

Black Plague: 14 th and 15 th centuries Reduced population of Europe by an estimated 30% to 60% Juan Gonzales, Harvest, p 6

Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1503-04:

Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1503-04

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519 Juan Gonzalez, Harvest, p 6:

Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519 Juan Gonzalez , Harvest, p 6

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Travels of Hernan Cortez, 1485 - 1547

“The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was a bustling metropolis. Meticulously designed and ingeniously constructed in the middle of alake, where it was accessible only by well guarded causeways, it contained some 250,000 inhabitants when Hernan Cortes first entered it.” p 4:

“ The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán was a bustling metropolis. Meticulously designed and ingeniously constructed in the middle of alake, where it was accessible only by well guarded causeways, it contained some 250,000 inhabitants when Hernan Cortes first entered it.” p 4 “The Conquest of Tenochtitlán”, unknown artist, late 1600s

240,000 people died in the siege of Tenochtitlan:

240,000 people died in the siege of Tenochtitlan