Hernán Cortés

alliance Cortés makes with the Tlaxcalan people. "As these Tlaxcalans rightly judged, with Spanish assistance, they would be able to destroy the Mexica Empire and its capital city." (Restall, 47) Prefacing the alliance, Cortés had arrived in Veracruz where he was met with Mexica diplomatic envoys that begged him not to continue further inland. The unwelcome-welcoming that Cortés received inspired him to look for alliances to aid in his conquest. With rumors of Mexica enemies existing, Cortés…

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was one of many Spanish conquistadors during the age of exploration. Born in Salamanca, Spain in about 1510, he was the younger of him and his brother. Because of him being the younger of two brothers, Coronado was not set to inherit any land or money from his family. Coronado decided to become an explorer of the new world to make a name for himself. Coronado initially traveled to New Spain, as Mexico was named by the Spanish, with the viceroy of New Spain,…

accompanied Vasco de Balboa in the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama to the pacific coast. These two men were born around the same time but accomplished two very different things. Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro heros if you will, of their time and have left a lasting impression on the Americas forever. Hernán Cortés owned land in Cuba. He heard of Spanish expeditions that had been repelled by Indians. He thought that he could accomplish something no one else has before.. In 1519, he…

Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors gained much from their strategic and brutal acquisition of Mexico. By conquering the Aztec civilisation, the Spanish were able to expand their empire, spread Christianity further and secure unimaginable riches. However, their arrival brought devastating impacts on the indigenous population such as disease, slavery and destruction of culture. In the 12th century, a Native American tribe called the Aztecs had moved into the Valley of Mexico in search of fertile…

A man by the name of Hernan Cortes sought to take over New Spain in the hopes of accomplishing his goals. Hernan Cortes was not a wealthy man, however when he came to New Spain wearing nice armor and riding on horses, Montezuma mistook him for a deity who left New Spain but claimed that he would later return. Montezuma was afraid so this gave Cortes time to prepare for what he planned to do in order to take over the land. One of the main reasons that Cortes and his people sought to…

Between A.D. 800 and the 11th century, the Aztecs and Vikings were great conquers who have not been forgotten. While the Vikings and Aztecs are somewhat similar in their religions and economics, the two migrations are very different in their geographical locations and their skills, but both made great impacts on their surroundings. Both the Aztecs and the Vikings are polytheistic, which means they believe in many different gods instead of just one. The Vikings are believed to be mostly pagan,…

Cortes begins to laugh. Montezuma begins to laugh. Cortes is choking, hysterical”, make it obvious to the reader that the story is not historically accurate. He lets the events of the story unfold almost unavoidably by telling it through people’s actions, like on page 326 “Cortes strikes an effigy...Cortes is raving… Doña Marina is walking.... Cortes and Montezuma are walking”. Even though Cortes and Montezuma is set in the early 16th century Barthelme…

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…