The collection of codices that make up in The Broken Spears offers the story from the years leading up to the initial contact until their first contact. This is useful in offering, in some ways, a back-story for the Aztec. Although the general facts are generally the same, the Aztec account offers more detail about the massacres and the brutality of the Spaniards. The official accounts of when the Spanish conquest first started are recorded as being between 1519 and 1521, however the codices in The Broken Spears document the appearance of omens …show more content…
There were many factors involved in the defeat of the Aztec empire and these accounts offer new interpretations of how factors such as greed, fear, and power played important roles in the ultimate defeat. The book offers a more complex view of the advantages and disadvantages the Aztec and Spaniards had over one another. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie remarked, “power is the ability not just to tell a story about another person but to make it the definitive story.” This book emphasizes the significance of different sides to historical narratives in having a more balanced definitive