Quetzalcoatl

- Hernan Cortes was born on 1485, in Medellìn, Spain. His father was a captain in the Spanish army. His parents wanted him to become a lawyer and sent him to school so he could study law, when he was fourteen. But Cortes wasn't interested in becoming a lawyer so 2 years later he returned home when he was sixteen years old. “Cortes had heard of Christopher Columbus' discoveries in the new world. He wanted to travel and see new lands like Christopher Columbus.” He also wanted to make fortune…

Latin America is an area on the map that is denoted as the countries that speak Spanish and Portuguese within the Americas. This area encloses 20 states starting from the border of North America to the end of South America. This region was first known as the home of a group of people who had one of the most advanced civilizations, the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans. This was before the arrival of the Europeans during the end of the 15th and peak of the 16th centuries. There were many vital events…

The downfall of the Aztec Empire in the 1500s was brought about by a very bloody and ruthless conquest orchestrated by Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés. Central America was devastated by the aggression of the European invaders who were ransacking every town for their valuables and subjugating the populace. Much of what is known about the events that unfolded comes from primary sources written by the Spanish participants or the stories written by the native Nahua people a generation or…

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…

While Greece and Rome had centered around politics and government ideas, classical China focuses on family and leadership from the gods. Folk beliefs, Confucianism, and Taoism led to classical Chinese characteristics. In early times, Chinese performed rituals to soothe the nature Gods. Ancestors were worshipped for the communication with the Gods. These beliefs strengthened the family core. Confucianism is a belief that is based on more philosophical than religious ideas. Confucian concerns are…

Many different civilizations have impacted history throughout time. The most evolutionary times of these civilizations were between 600 B.C. and A.D. 1200 when they began to organize institutions and characteristics. These “defining and long lasting civilization patterns shaped by belief systems, including philosophies and religions, can be understood as classicism.” The base of classicism can also be seen as the expansion of societies into civilizations. There are five classical civilizations…

If left up to the text of the 16th century the fall of the Aztec Empire would be accredited only to Cortes, but as Kevin O. Collins stressed in The Fatal Flaws of the Aztec Empire we see that we must look past the conquest and look more to the political, and religious view of the Aztec. Writers, such as William Prescott saw the flaws in the manuscripts written by those under Cortes and stressed that it was the mismanagement of Tenochtitlan that caused its fall. Unfortunately for this paper I…

Teotihuacan was the dominant civilisation of Mesoamerica in the 5th century. The origin, history and culture of Teotihuacan have been vast and abstruse areas of research, which rely decisively on masses of evidence found at the site of pyramids, temples and neighbourhoods in a sub-valley inside the Valley of Mexico. Since the earliest excavations of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora in the 17th century, the nature of Teotihuacanos society has been a persisting mystery however, through the utilisation…

In the past ten weeks, I have become both a more independent writer and a more independent person. I managed to hunt for apartments and sign a lease for the first time, apply for my first job, go on my first interview, and get hired all while managing my academics and social life. My growth as a writer and as a person have come hand in hand this quarter. Neither one a product of the other, but both mutually influential. The grueling process of getting a job is a perfect example. On the first day…

SoClose With a hand that is not dark enough to be Mexicana but not light enough to be American, I am reaching over the fence for a country that is not mine and no longer considers me it’s I have two tongues, forked, like the serpent Quetzalcoatl, Earliest European depiction found on a wooden slab, a “stela” I am climbing, reaching, searching, for something that may or may not be mine Pero voy, because my memories are older than me, And so is this fence Pero Que Mas? Just like Cherrie…