The remaining of the chapters in the book describe the war that took place between 1519-1521, which led to the fall of the Tenochtitlan, which resulted in the defeat of the Mexica. Cortes’s plan to trap the Aztecs within their capital worked flawlessly. He wanted to capture them within their capital therefore he could increase his weakness which was protecting his flanks. The fall of Tenochtitlan was so significant because basically the old saying out with the old and in with the new.…
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Content Paper) Bernal Díaz del Castillo a Spanish conqueror and chronicler in the Indies, travelled with Cortés expedition party. Bernal Díaz del Castillo was interested in getting his version of the expedition out to the world. Even though it was years before he was able to accomplish this he believed it was important to explain the “rank and file” of the expeditioners and the Aztecs. The excerpt describes the expeditions walk into the great city of Mexico or as it was known at the time, Tenochtitlan.…
Popocatepetl is a stratovolcano that is located in Puebla, Mexico. Its last eruption was in the year of 2013. Did you know that Popocatepetl also has a story that has to do with another volcano named Iztaccíhuatl it is one of the most romantic stories you'll ever hear about to volcanos. According to the myth the volcano every time the volcano erupts it is know for crying and it is because he cries for his loved one.…
It tells the story of the crucial developing point of the Aztec culture where their “Azteca” ancestors arrived in the Basin of Mexico in the early 14th century and at that spot they saw an eagle land, and this said to them that this is the direction they needed to be going and made a shrine to their god, Huitzilopochtli. From there, the novel continues on to discuss the creation of the various cities and the complexities of the creation of this new culture from a new “Triple Alliance” of the Tezcoco, Tenochtitlan-Tlateloco, and Tlacopan who would eventually go on to become the “Mexica”…
Both stories bring us the two different perspectives of finding greed or compassion and for how this tied in with what life was life like in the 1500’s. These two conquistadores were our first documentation of what was the set creation and start of history from South America to North America. Both people so alike, but so different strands together to bring from our past to the present minds of how things were either left in the past or how the repetition of acts continue through…
These texts speak about the same event, but they have different viewpoints and…
These pieces of evidence show how these two stories are similar in concept. Likewise, the two stories have several differences as well, like who is up for the…
Carrasco productively communicated his thesis of writing this book in the preface. The first chapter is set up to assist the reader by providing a general account of the “geography and geographical imagination of the Aztec people” (xii). The author profitably assists the reader in developing an representation of the Aztecs geography by integrating a quote by Eric Wolf that states, “Mountains from the massive backbone of this land, and these mountains set off the three precincts of the Middle American citadel: a central highland in south-central Mexico, a southern highland in southern Mexico, and a southeastern highland in southeasternmost Mexico and Guatemala” (1). The reader can develop a spectacular image of the geography of the Aztecs from this quote, so Carrasco did a splendid job of describing the Aztecs geography and geographical imagination. Chapter two used vivid imagery of the “cosmic tree” and the Aztecs “four quarters” to discuss Aztecs…
Massive amounts of native people swelled Cortes’s ranks in defiance of the Mexica tributary system. Up to 100,000 Tlaxcalans joined with Cortes when he marched on Tenochtitlan. Schwartz states that “such figures emphasizes the fact that in many ways the conquest of Tenochtitlan and the fall of the Mexica Empire was as much a struggle among indigenous peoples as it was a clash of the Old and New Worlds” (Schwartz 15). When the Spanish arrived, “the peoples of the Mexica did not form a single political entity, and these political and ethnic divisions contributed to the success” (Schwartz 23) of the military expedition. In order for the Spanish to take advantage of these divisions, they had to rely on past experience when dealing with native peoples.…
It also discusses modern efforts to reclaim mesoamerican heritage and culture and the unhelpful “revisionist discourse . . . that . . . embraces . . . the underlying assumption that ritual violence can only be practised by an irretrievably cruel and barbaric culture” (Pennock 296). All parts of the article built on what was learned in class, especially about the religion and capital city Tenochtitlan of the Aztecs.…
Heroes typically have the characteristics of being strong and fearless. The ancient hero Gilgamesh had these ideals in the story the Epic of Gilgamesh, written in Western Asia in 2000 B.C.E. Even though these ideals are present, they are not as evident in the hero Harry Potter from J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series written in the 21st century. However, in almost every book, no matter what the culture or time period are, the same basic themes of character traits, power and death recur.…
The three similarities that are noticed between the two stories are Moneyless, self-appearances, and emotion. The three differences of the two stories that are found are settings, characters, presented…
The most obvious similarities between these stories are that they both use symbols or a signification, In these stories, they both have a creator god that everybody respects and look upon to. For example, in the “Mapuche Creation” story they said that “he was the king of sky and earth” and “he was known as the creator of the world”. The Creator god is defined responsible for the creation of the Earth. They have a notion of leadership which is the creator god that they honor. In their culture, they show that men are superior by showing that the creator gods are only men and not women.…
The letter from Cortes and the Florentine Codex both describe the same event but from different perspectives. In an essay of approximately 600 words, compare and contrast these two documents. You could examine the history portrayed in the documents, different perspectives, language, tone, etc. Be sure to quote directly from the text and cite appropriately.…
Summary In Miguel Leon-Portilla’s The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, the author shares the Aztec account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1519. Throughout the book, Portilla discusses the significant events that occurred in the Aztec society. The indigenous groups in Mexico such as the Mexica (Aztec) had a thriving culture and advanced society in ancient Mesoamerica. The people of the Aztec society were educated, studied many subjects of interest such as astrology, and built great architectural pyramids that were breathtaking and beautiful.…