Hernán Cortés

structure, 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…

In 1519, the Spanish conquerors HERNAN CORTES believe that Mexico is a place full of gold and wealth, so he lead the army went to Mexico. The king “Montezuma” who does not fear for the arrival of European, also held a grand ceremony to welcome their arrival. There are two hundred nobles dressed in exquisite costumes fitted two lines to meet Hernan Cortes and his men. When Hernan Cortes first met the king, he could not really close to him, because the king's guards told him that it is not…

The documentary, The Other Conquest is based on a year later after Hernan Cortes’s invasion. The opening scene shows a native Aztec, Topiltzin as the last survivor of the massacre at the temple. As he searches among the dead bodies for a sigh of life he discovers his mother dead. Seeing all that’s left behind which isn’t much, he than realizes the importance of his existence. He felt as if he was assigned to keep his culture alive. To do so, he draws in his codex all that has occurred. Topiltzin…

In 1519, Hernan Cortes invades Mexico in a false act of friendship towards the Aztecs. Cortes and his crew trick the Aztecs and convince them they are mythological gods, then the crew murders the village, takes control over the Mexican city, and keeps the survivors as slaves. “The spaniards hanged a chief…

empire eventually came to an end. The Aztecs were able to transform themselves from a small nomadic group into a strong empire that lasted for about three centuries. The end of the Aztecs came in the sixteenth century when they were conquered by Hernan Cortes and his…

The Spanish, led by Francisco Pizzaro, conquered the Inca in Peru in 1532 (Chapter 13, Slide #4). The video describes that the Spanish used the Jacobus musket as part of its weaponry, which was slow firing and inaccurate, but nevertheless deadly (GGS 17:06-18:14). Another critical weapon in the Spanish arsenal was the Toledo sword. It was a long, hard, and pliable sword that was characteristic of rapiers (GGS 20:00-21:00). In the film, Jared Diamond explains that Europeans inherited metal…

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…

Zazil Ha, Matoaka, Sacagawea, and Toby “Winema” Riddle are all portrayed much differently than Malinalli, but why is she viewed negatively for doing similar things? Each of these women helped foreigners by mediating between their own native peoples and the foreigners that would later bring destruction to them. Why then, would Malinalli Tenepal be the only one portrayed in a negative limelight? Zazil Ha (1519) was a Mayan who chose a Spaniard as her husband. Although her husband completely…

Hernan Cortez was an ambitious conquistador who embarked from Cuba with 600 men on a trip to what is now present day Mexico. He later came across the Aztec Empire and was able to take over the vast empire and took them of their fortunes. Francisco was a…

The Spanish Conquistadors wanted to find wealth, gold and silver, and people. In 1519 the Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes walked into ‘the new world’ in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital. Many of the European Conquistadors were second born sons consequently Hernan was properly second or third born son as the laws in Spain at the time considered that the first born sons would get all of the father's land and wealth. “Second sons of wealthy nobles, afforded an education but no rights to inherit…