The Aztecs had to please the sun gods by giving them human sacrifice. They had to kill over 10,000 people a year, so the sun gods would give them food…
I am guessing that since he had a good reputation, that helped him when he ran into other Indian tribes on his journey to Mexico City. It also might have helped keep the other three survivors alive because the Indians thought that they could help cure people as…
In the journey, Bernal talks about the journey that would lead to reaching the Aztec Capital, Tenochtitlan. The early accounts tell a battle between the Spaniards and the enemy [indigenous group]. Bernal states, “The battle lasted over an hour, and the Indians fought all the time like brave warriors, until the horsemen came up” (Bernal, 103). The battle seems that the large amount of Indians gave trouble to the Spaniards and wouldn’t give up. It all changed when the cavalry came in and scared the Indians away from the Spaniards.…
During his search for the riches of the New World, Cortes found himself appalled at the traditions and values of the native population. The culture shock that Cortes experienced from the indigenous people of the Aztec Empire had a profound effect on his views of the local populace. Another thing that influenced Cortes’s views of the Aztec Empire was his lack of knowledge on the cultural…
Hernan Cortés, zealous, like all true Spaniards, for the advancement of the faith, determined to effect the subjugation of the Indians, and get possession of their treasures, he shrank from no means to accomplish these ends; yet there are few instances in his whole career in which he was cruel or bloodthirsty without a…
Malinche can potentially be viewed as a traitor by the native people, however, she could also be viewed as a strategist. Malinche was handed over to Cortes as a slave, yet, unlike many slaves who die within that particular social rank, Malinche not only survives the potential brutal life of slavery, but works as a translator for Cortes. There were several individuals who Cortes could have entrusted to translate significant political dialogue between him and the natives, yet he depended on an individual, who was not only a native, but a woman. It also demonstrates that a native or natives were capable of interacting, and understanding the language of their conquest.…
Thus, he wanted to represent Mutezuma in his letters Mexico. In my opinion, it is because it was a new world which Cortes and his people thought a savage and uncivilized nation .Therefore ; they did not expect that they would face a strong ruler as Mutezuma. Moreover, his serving and his control over his people is very powerful and extraordinary. It is because he is a barbarian ruler…
The practice of human sacrifice was a very prevalent in the ancient cultures of the Mesoamerican region. While practiced by smaller civilizations, the Aztec empire’s aggressive use of sacrifice was romanticized in movies, books, and other mediums. Before the Aztec empire’s height in 1427, historians speculate that the natives practiced sacrifice only in small quantities. The Aztecs dominated the Mexican region in culture for the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. After the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in Mexico, many Aztecs were wiped out by the introduction of new diseases by Hernan Cortes and his soldiers.…
He liked Columbus because he had Gold and glory but not the natives because they weren’t form Spain or up to his level. Indigenous population thinks that Cortes impact was a negative impact because he killed the leader took control and changed the countries name and was aggressive towards the people there. But in his defense he wanted money and he wanted glory so when you want those stuff you become greedy and you force yourself to kill and people weren’t aware that it wasn’t his intension is was his intention but he became like that because he wanted money and glory he started to kill and burn ships down. Because of this people had a negative impact from him any country he wanted to control or take over he would kill that’s why there was a negative impact.…
The downfall of the Aztec Empire in the 1500s was brought about by a very bloody and ruthless conquest orchestrated by Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Central America was devastated by the aggression of the European invaders who were ransacking every town for their valuables and subjugating the populace. Much of what is known about the events that unfolded comes from primary sources written by the Spanish participants or the stories written by the native Nahua people a generation or two after the whole affair, whose sources mainly consist of oral tellings of the circumstance from their ancestors. In Victors and Vanquished, Stuart Schwartz attempts to juxtapose these sometimes contradictory sources and explore the situation from…
Since he was a conquistador he conquered the Aztecs. That…
The Spanish soldiers were ready to repel against Cortes because of the promise of riches (most had been shipped back to Spain). Cortes agreed that the soldiers deserved their pay and asked Spain to give it up. Cortes goal was to colonize Mexico into a powerful Spanish empire. The Aztecs were a group of Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Aztec culture had complex mythological and religious traditions.…
When Montezuma brought the Spanish to his capital, the Spanish immediately put him in their custody and guarded him. The Aztec people were terrified and angry that Montezuma was being controlled by the Spanish. Many had lost respect for Montezuma because he gave the Spaniards whatever they needed and wanted. Moctezuma was killed and we historians really do not know how he really died. Cortés and his men took possession of every precious object and resources within the Aztec…
Along with this came a massive crop failure and revolts. Aztecs stuck by a cosmic religious system, and believed the recent events were caused by a disturbance in the energy within the cosmic system. The empire believed in capturing warriors for sacrifice instead of killing them in battle, so instead of using the warriors in their time of population decline, they decided to increase the rate of warrior sacrifices as to appease the…
Cortés used his ability to communicate with native tribes to persuade them into agreement, and therefore alliance with the Spanish; the Spanish spread their Christian beliefs among the Aztecs (who were under the burden of a barbaric religion), which in turn led to more people joining the Spanish; the Spanish brought disease and spread it among the empire (unwittingly, but they spread it nonetheless). All three of these points indicate such a conclusion. The Spanish being the primary contributors to the…