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Spanish conquistadors should not be glorified after all the historical events that have taken place. The Spaniards caused massacres that killed thousands of people. The Spanish had a harsh social class structure with unfair classification and judgment. The Spanish also really wanted wealth and growth of their culture and population. The Spanish conquistadors should not be glorified, the Aztecs would kill others as a sacrifice to the gods they believed in. Similarly, “The Spaniards…

In a distant land, there was a famous city where the Aztec’s god had told them to look for. Tenochtitlan, surrounded by "floating gardens" and high mountains, was beautiful and very well-organized. One day, an Aztec merchant went up to the Great Temple to ask the priest to interpret his dream. As he arrived, his eyes immediately flashed on the majestic temple. It was standing about ninety feet high, two stepped pyramids rising side by side on a huge platform of this ginormous structure.…

powerful and memorable works tend to be those that come from an artist with great struggles, for the emotion of that struggle is embedded in every brush on the canvas. Albeit from two contrary cultures and century, Frida Kahlo born and raised in 1900’ Mexico and Annette Bezor from 1950’, Australia, the two woman have both made impact in the feminist world with their paintings, expressing similar issues the separate women deal with, investigations into woman and their cultural roles, female…

In history during the time period of the 1930s several movements and new ideas were coming into play such as the expansion of capitalism, industrialism and Latin American culture in the United States. Gaps between the social classes began to arise quickly and the lower classes were affected greatly with poverty and strains to their labor work. Diego Rivera a Mexican painter created “the Flower Carrier” an oil based Masonite in 1935 as a method with the painting of bright colors, geometric shapes…

I chose to write my essay on Mexican Independence Day. Mexican Independence Day is on September 16th. They celebrate by having parades, festivals, parties, dancing, fireworks, feasts and much more. They hang Mexican flags everywhere this day. They blow whistles and horns and throw confetti is thrown everywhere. Everything is decorated in green, red, and white. The background behind Mexican Independence Day is that the Mexicans wanted to break away from Spain. But Spain didn’t want that. When…

Maria Ibanez will do only harm for our already weak country. In this country, we have lost many lives we have dwindled down to so little. I know that we are desperate. We are the child yearning for our mother’s sweet arms. Maria is not our mother we need a leader that will join the people instead of dividing them. Hitler used the Jews, people with differences as scapegoats for the depression we as minorities and as people who should celebrate diversity need to ban together. I will not stand by…

On October 2nd, 1968 the Mexican government killed and arrested between two hundred and three hundred nonviolent protesters in Mexico City’s Plaza de las Tres Culturas. This had a huge impact to the people of Mexico since they had not experienced any violent protest against the government since the Mexican Revolution but the government’s methods of suppression stunned everyone. The PRI, the party that has stayed in power since the Revolution, saw the demands of the students for a reform as a…

During the early years of Mesoamerica three major groups ruled the lands. One of those groups was the Aztecs which ruled over the most amount of land during the time. One of their reasons for getting such a vast amount of land is because of their outstanding warfare ways. During the time the Aztecs could be called the strongest because of their scholarly Reasons for battle, their dangerous weapons and their skilled warriors. The Aztecs were well known warriors who controlled a vast amount of…

Aztec culture and there American culture there are also similarities. The Aztec culture is an Indian culture that originated in central Mexico. The culture started to flourish between the twelfth century A.D. and the sixteenth century A.D. Even though this is when the century began to flourish, it is still a modern culture, because it still exists in central Mexico today. The early Aztecs were divided into many different ethnic groups. The Aztecs are still divided into different ethnic groups…

Aztecs and Spaniards Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico By: Colby Bryant This book is about the Aztecs and how they came to be. It's amazing how far we’ve come and how we evolved to the people we are today with government and knowledge. It was a lot different back then, especially with the Aztecs. They believed in a lot of different things like: religion, government, parenting styles, etc. It was a very hard, and rough time to be alive in for everybody. People from other countries would travel…