Hernán Cortés

South America. Christopher Columbus was the first European to arrive in the Americas in 1492. This sailor was funded by the Spanish king and queen. He landed in the Bahamas, a small group of islands in the Caribbean and claimed the land for Spain. Hernán Cortés, also from Spain, landed on the coast of Mexico in South America in 1519. Shortly afterwards, the Spanish defeated the Aztec people. The Aztec had settled in what is now Mexico City in AD 1345. They had built a huge, wealthy empire by…

An individual’s life has been judged and predicted even before they were born. The fact that individuals are judged even before they are out of the womb shows how society expects each individual to be like. Society may have negative, positive, or even neutral thoughts about each individual. Those thoughts or ideas can leave an impact on individuals, in which can influence them in their choices in life. Those ideas could urge them to do what they decided not to do because what they originally…

million people. The loss of life directly from the disease was so colossal, that many also died from famine due to the lack of meal and many of the women being too sick to make bread. The Mexicans soon also succumbed to the Iberian conquest led by Hernan Cortes due to the illnesses that left them too weak, unorganised and sick to fight…

North and South America have transgressed into the countries they are currently in today’s society due to the historical events that date back to the 1500, and 1600’s. The America’s are vastly diverse due to the continuous changes in the populations through out 1492-1677. During this time period, many immigrants from around the world made the journey to the America’s. One of the most significant events that led to the start of the re-peopling of the America’s was Christopher Columbus’ voyage. As…

In Professor McDonald’s book, Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves, I focused on the chapter “Utopian Dreamers and Colonial Disasters”. This chapter first starts off with the mention of England and the East Indies Trade Company then moves on to talk about the first voyages to Madagascar and the disasters from settling and efforts on colonizing the foreign island then concluding on the story of Captain Johnson and the introduction to pirates in Madagascar. Professor McDonald primarily targets…

The road to Mexico’s Independence was a challenging journey for Mexicans, it was also a time of great economic impact for the Spaniards but for others, it was a time filled with hard labor and disparity. The demise of the Aztec Empire done by Hernan Cortes and the Spaniard Army brought Mexico into a “new era.” The Spaniard takeover made many Spaniards rich and turned the economy in their favor but it also created new societies that would define where and how ones life would be. The new societies…

a) Briefly explain, with reference to TWO of the factors listed below, how there came together in Europe in the early 16th century both the motivation and the means to explore and colonize land across the seas. Religion conflicts arose between the Protestants and the Catholics. The Catholics of Spain and Portugal, along with the Protestants of England and Holland, acquired a desire to spread their versions of Christianity to other people as a result of religious rivalries. Religion also…

Spanish started to arrive to the new world, many myths of what happened during those times of conquest were made. Myths do not have to only be made up stories but could also be stories that hold some truth to them. Conquistadors Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortez and explores Christopher Columbus both came to believe they were perceived as gods by Natives. Many of this conclusions were made up by miscommunication and also self-benefits, mainly for titles and riches. In modern times, scholars…

States has more pluralism than Mexico. Historical forces that affected the hierarchy of race in the United States was the manifest destiny and slavery. The history of Mexico’s racial stratification system began in 1519 when Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs.…

that new riches were abound to a land west of the Antilles. A group of Spaniards led by Hernan Cortes set out to the Yucatan peninsula in 1519 and promptly claimed the land for the Spanish crown. Upon arrival the native Mexics thought of him and his men as deities given their weapons and ships. Thinking he was the returning god Quetzalcoatl as foretold in their religion the Aztec emperor, Montezuma, showered Cortes with gifts including gold. Gold would prove to be the doom to the natives as the…