Help-Spanish conquistadors received grants from Spanish
rulers to explore (1) ___ in the Americas. In 1519,
(2)___ landed on the east coast of Mexico. He was
welcomed into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by the
Aztec emperor, (3)___, whom he then took prisoner.
In 1532, (4) ___ captured the Inca ruler, (5) ___, and
destroyed much of the Incan army. The conquistadors
conquered the Aztecs and the Incas partly because the
Spanish had weapons such as (6) ___. The Europeans
unknowingly brought (7) ___ to which Native Americans had no immunity.