1. Indian Conquistadors Melissa Mariscal

3. The conquistadors in the Americas were more volunteer militia than an actual organized military.

4. The conquistadors had to supply their own materials, weapons and horses.

7. The triple alliances of Texcoco, Tlacopan, Tenochtitlan was developed by the Mexica as a conquest machine

8. One important dimension to alliance building in Mesoamerica both before and during the Spanish invasion was the exchange of women for marriage

9. Cities were often attack sequentially

10. The Aztecs unprecedented expansion took them to regions where they had no traditional enemies

11. The strategies of expansion conquest employed by Spaniards in 16th century Mesoamerica have been explained in terms of genius of CortesAlliances

13. Trade, gift exchange, and tribute payments took place both within and between these zones.

14. Some of the trade routes are well documented

15. The route from Tenochtitlan to Guatemala is one of them

16. Teotitlan was on important crossroads towards Tuxtepec in the Mazatec mountains

17. There is many different routes of places

18. The trade route to Guatemala with that followed by the conquistadors it becomes clear that they are indeed the same

19. The last part of the route is confirmed both by Diaz Del Castillo and Lopez de GomaraTrade Routes