Cortes Generales

Whatever the reason, the expedition led by Hernan Cortes in 1519 resulted in the fall of the Mexica Empire. Like European contemporaries, Mesoamerican societies were urban, agricultural, literate, and militaristic.…

in charge of Tenoctitlán, which is now called Mexico City, when Cortés had to go fight off Pánfilo de Narváez . While he was left in charge, the Aztecs were having a festival. He didn't want them to revolt, so he sent his men to start the fight instead. Thousands of unarmed and harmless people were killed that night. The Aztecs were mad because many of their nobles and chiefs were killed, and their things were stolen. When Cortés returned, he planned to retreat in the night. As they were…

Once upon a time there were these Spanish explorers of the New World who found theses 2 amigas named, Melanie, and I who found a vast treasure and gold in Mexico and cancun. In the 1972, I conquered the Rose empire. She and her amigas took thousands of pounds of gold, silver, and precious jewels. Then in 1979, Melanie Hernandez conquered the sunshine Empire. “ Melanie, I heard him saying that he is going to kill you so he can take the treasure from you.” I said nervously. Next day, El Dorado…

Siguanaba (also known as La Siguanaba) is a well-known figure from both Salvadoran and Guatemalan legends. She was originally called Sihuehuet, which means beautiful woman, she had an affair with the son of God, Tlaloc and became pregnant. She was an irresponsible mother and left her young son alone while she satisfied her sexual desires with other men/gods. When Tlaloc discovered this, he was furious. So he changed her name to Siguanaba, or horrible/ugly woman, and placed a curse on her.…

country!” (Bulosan 203). Obviously this upset Carlos as he picked up a telephone receiver and hit her in the face, causing something to fall out of her mouth (Bulosan 203). After his capture and beating by five drunken white men in California, Carlos stumbled into a young white woman’s house seeking safety (Bulosan 209). She was startled at first, but then opened up her home and heart to poor, beaten Carlos (Bulosan 209). He thought to himself, “What was the matter with this land? Just a…

answered by the great Hernan Cortes. Who is Hernan Cortes? Cortes is a famous spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico. Cortes’ voyage was one of the reasons Mexico has a spanish culture today. Cortes was born to be a conquistador after he dropped out of his school so he could learn how to fight. Hernan Cortes’ exploration led to the fall of the Aztec Empire, the claiming of Mexico for spain, and he was one of the people who started the age of exploration. Hernan cortes started his…

steal the Aztecs gold and make them fall. There was four top reasons why Tenochtitlan was defeated. They are manipulation, alliances, disease, superior weapons. Manipulation because the leader of the spanish, Cortes manipulated the Aztecs by saying he was there god. Alliances because Cortes wouldn’t…

a new Conquistador, Hernán Cortés was ready to begin his quest for land, riches and power, this time in Mexica. At the time, the Azteca were the most powerful civilization in Mexica. To Cortés this meant their empire must possess the most abundant wealth to plunder and led him to set his sights on overtaking them. The Spaniards advantage over the Azteca through the use of more highly advanced weaponry as well as germ warfare in the form of foreign disease enabled Cortés and his men to defeat the…

Smith's argument is that the Cortez were able to defeat the Aztecs not because of the Spanish's superior technology or the Aztecs' belief that the Spanish were gods, but because of the Aztecs' existing tension with their neighbors due to their imperialism as well as the genocidal actions that the Spanish deployed to control the Aztecs. In the first few sections of the essay, Smith disproved the traditional idea that religion played a big role in the Aztec's conquest. He stated that there were…

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…