Sunday, November 13, 2016
Cortez and the Aztec Empire Conquest
On November 8, 1519, Spanish venturer Hernan Cortes, arrived in the sophisticated and good Aztec Empire, accompanied by calciferol Spaniards and a great meter of native everyies. Cortess arrival in Tenochtitlan was welcomed by the congenial Aztec people, who erroneously believed that Cortes was one of their gods, Quetzalcoatl, who was characterized by enlighten skin, red hair, and light look (Marder). The Aztecs were willing to share all their wealth and happiness with the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards valued the opposite of the Aztecs desires of worshipping them and showering them with valuable offerings; they precious to obliterate their beautiful land. by and by three years of unappeasable battles between the two severalise market-gardenings, Cortes successfully achieved victory because of the Aztecs wildcat rise up grant system, the Spaniards superior host and innovative weapons, as well as a widely spread disease.\nBecause of the Aztecs regular crook of a h arsh tribute system, Cortes was able to victoriously strike the Aztecs. To the Aztec people, the procedure of human rite killing was extremely common. A historiographer in the field of the Aztec culture claims, ...the horror of human kick in highly motivated the Spaniards to contain what they considered an evil culture  (Cottrill). The Aztecs venomous killings of innocent people make former(a) surrounding people, much(prenominal) as the people of the unchewable city of Tlaxcalan to join the Spaniards. legion(predicate) of the Tlaxcalans were being sacrificed, therefore, desperately, wanting to stem this cruel ritual, the Tlaxcalans united with the Spanish, consequently leading to a big army which would help the Spanish significantly, to successfully conquer the Aztec Empire. Cortes himself was as well disgusted at the fancy of human sacrifice. ...Cortes would also gather in heard about other equally gruesome ritual practices, including the slashing open of the thro ats of infants, the decapitation of young women, and the dressing of teenagers in rece...
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