Unit 2

Worldviews in Conflict

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 10 Summary

At the end of Chapter 10, you should be able to answer the Big Question:

  • How might differences in worldview contribute to the dominance of one culture over another?

Below are the smaller questions that you studied in Chapter 10 to help you answer the Big Question.


  1. How does a leader’s worldview affect his or her choices and decisions?
  2. In what ways did technology and disease contribute to the Spanish dominance over the Aztecs?
  3. How did the worldviews of the Spanish and Aztecs influence the strategies they used against one another?


Download the graphic organizer seen in Figure 10.1 to help you review Chapter 10.

Remember to review the vocabulary for Chapter 10.

  • atlatl
  • conquistador
  • epidemic
  • halberd
  • house arrest
  • intermediary
  • Mayan
  • muskets
  • Nahuatl

Figure 10.1 Chapter 10 Graphic Organizer