La Malinche

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was La Malinche born?Circa 1500
2. When did La Malinche die?Circa 1529
3. Where was La Malinche born?Mexican Gulf Coast
4. Who was La Malinche?She was a brave girl from Mexico who lived around the year 1500. She became an important helper to the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés because she could speak many languages.
5. What languages could La Malinche speak?She could speak Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec people, and Mayan, which was spoken by people in the south of Mexico.

Mesoamerica: A historical region and cultural area in the Americas that extends from central Mexico southwards through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica.
Mestizaje: The process of mixing between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, resulting in a new cultural and biological identity in Latin America.
Colonial System: The system of political, economic, and social control imposed by a dominant power over a subordinate territory and its people.