General search strategies
Some suggested subjects/keywords that can be used to search the library catalogue and the Internet to research the Spanish in the Americas. Remember, this is not an exhaustive list.
Some search keywords
– spanish conquistadors
– spanish conquest americas
– spanish colonization americas
-“christopher columbus” americas
– pizarro inca empire
– cortes aztec empire
Online Resources
Non fiction eBooks
Incas
Inca Civilization
– topics include Historical overview, Government, Cuzco, Religion, Architecture, Art, Collapse of the empire. From Ancient History Encyclopdia, Mark Cartwright.
Spanish colonisation of the Americas
America, Spanish conquest
– conquest of the Inca and Aztecs by the Spanish. Includes information on the resistance to Spanish colonialism. From South African History Online
Aztec history
– information on the Aztec way of life and the conquest by the Spanish. Created by Jaime Cottrill
Cortes and the fall of the Aztec Empire
– From Ancient History Encyclopdia, Mark Cartwright.
Pizarro and the fall of the Inca Empire
– From Ancient History Encyclopdia, Mark Cartwright.
Spanish in the Americas video
Aztecs: Fall of the Empire
– YouTube. Produced by MGH