Unit 2

Worldviews in Conflict

Activity

Document: Reading/Study Guide Unit 2: Chapter 10, Lesson 1

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3. Read page 216 of your textbook.
   
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• The textbook says that Cortes “embodied the Spanish worldview of his time”. What does this mean?
  
  
4. Read “A Not-So-Secret-Formula” on pages 217 and 218 of your textbook.
   
• Answer the following question in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• Whose interests were served by the conquistadors’ formula? What evidence supports your answer?
  
  
5. Read pages 221 and 222 of your textbook.
   
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What was Cortes’ position in Cuba?
  
• Why did Cortes go to the Yucatan Peninsula? 
• Why did Cortes declare the town of La Villa de la Veracruz an independent government?
  
  
6. Proceed to the next page of the course.