★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #13
Conquest of the Aztec Empire DBQ
How did a few hundred Spaniards conquer the Aztec Empire?
How did a few hundred Spaniards bring down the Aztec Empire? Students rank weapons, allies, and disease, then test that ranking against Spanish and Nahua sources.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (16 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (31 pages): hook, background essay, documents with analysis questions, sourcing organizer, bucketing and outline, writing task, 4-point rubric, teacher guide with answer key and sample essay
- Scaffolded version (10 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- Cortés’s Third Letter (1522)
- Bernal Díaz’s memoir
- Nahua accounts, Florentine Codex
- Lienzo de Tlaxcala
- Smallpox in the Florentine Codex
- Counting the armies (data)
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 57 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.H.CO.2, 7.H.CE.2, 7.G.HI.1, 7.I.Q, 7.I.UE, 7.I.CC