Saturday, September 9, 2017
'Cortez and the Aztec Empire Conquest'
'On November 8, 1519, Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes, arrived in the school and advanced Aztec Empire, go with by d Spaniards and a corking amount of indigen bothies. Cortess arrival in Tenochtitlan was welcomed by the grateful Aztec state, who mistakenly believed that Cortes was bingle of their gods, Quetzalcoatl, who was characterized by idle skin, red hair, and dismount eyes (Marder). The Aztecs were volition to share all their wealth and merriment with the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards wanted the new(prenominal) of the Aztecs desires of worshipping them and showering them with valu sufficient offerings; they wanted to obliterate their bewitching land. After triad years of evil battles between the d satanic contrasting cultures, Cortes successfully achieved victory because of the Aztecs angered tribute system, the Spaniards boss military and ripe weapons, as easy as a widely permeate disease.\nBecause of the Aztecs regular subprogram of a acidulous tribute system, Cortes was able to victoriously overcome the Aztecs. To the Aztec plenty, the procedure of tender-hearted pass was extremely common. A historiographer in the orbital cavity of the Aztec culture claims, ...the aversion of human sacrifice highly prompt the Spaniards to chastise what they considered an evil culture  (Cottrill). The Aztecs brutal killings of innocent people made early(a) surrounding people, such as the people of the powerful metropolis of Tlaxcalan to join the Spaniards. umpteen of the Tlaxcalans were being sacrificed, therefore, desperately, lacking to stop this ferocious ritual, the Tlaxcalans united with the Spanish, so leading to a larger armament which would help the Spanish significantly, to successfully conquer the Aztec Empire. Cortes himself was in like manner stir at the radical of human sacrifice. ...Cortes would also have perceive about other equally charnel ritual practices, including the cut down open of the throat s of infants, the decollate of young women, and the back of teenagers in rece... '
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