Spanish colonization of the Americas

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    “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.. . .” - Hernán Cortes. Hernán Cortes was a famous Spanish Conquistador who helped cause the fall of the Aztec Empire. He helped colonize mainland in Mexico. He helped expand Spain’s land in the 16th century. This was a large achievement in a time when there were many expeditions. Hernán was born in Medellin, Spain in a family with little nobility. Hernan was always interested by the numerous expeditions to the New World. When he went to Cuba he became…

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    he met people, the Taínos, who he called indians. They were very open to the Spanish but soon soured the relationship between the two. The Taínos offended the Spanish when they failed to pay proper respect to Christian symbols out of ignorance. Columbus then decided to seize the land for Spain and for any Indians that didn cooperate he either killed or took back to Spain as prisoners. Hernán Cortés heard about Spanish…

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    Essay On The Aztec Empire

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    The Aztec Empire was once a powerful force in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica that fell from power during the early 16th century when the Spanish arrived and began conquering the so called New world. This conquest was hastened by their advanced technology and by the introduction of foreign disease’s that the Natives did not have resistance too. What many people don’t consider though is the possibility that the Aztec’s themselves also contributed to their downfall with their own beliefs regarding human…

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    Broken Spears Summary

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    The Spanish siege of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán is largely known today because of the written reports by of those who witnessed it. In 1521 the Spanish took over the capital city of Tenochtitlán, resulting in the ultimate demise of the Triple Alliance. Versions of this historical event tend to vary due to the array of perspectives involved. For instance, whereas Spanish solider Bernal Diaz wrote his personal account The conquest of New Spain, multiple Aztec informants, including Aztec…

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    AZTECS FINALLY FALL The person we chose for our biography profile is Hernán Cortés. We studied this person in American History and he interested us a lot so I talked to my partner and he said he liked him too. In the fall of 1518 he was to command his own trip to Mexico, but his boss canceled it. Despite his boss’s orders he went anyway. He left with more than 500 men and 11 ships. So all in all Hernán Cortés is an all around interesting person. Hernán had a winning record.…

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    There was an order for the arrest of Cortés and when he heard the news of a Spanish expedition he left Pedro de Alvarado in command in Tenochtitlán. The leader of the Spanish expedition was Pánfilo de Narváez. While Narváez was on the coast Cortés convinced most of Narváez to switch sides. While Cortés was gone Alvarado attacked the Aztec warriors in Tenochtitlan. Later after…

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    Also, if this was the case the unbelieving natives could technically still worship these idols but would have to follow Spanish regulations to do so. Fourthly, native unbelievers “are not subject to the church or its competence and, therefore… idolaters cannot be punished by the church” because they “live outside her district and territory (de Las Casas 1992, 79).” In other…

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    Mexican Independence

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    environment that came before it. Long before Cortes landed on the coast in 1521 in search of gold and silver, the political system of Mexico was organized by Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztecs, Toltecs, Olmecs, and Mayans. By the time the Spanish arrived the Aztecs had a firm political grasp on most of the region. The Aztecs did not enforce absolute rule over their territories, nor were all the territories linked by common borders, the Aztecs simply expected the territories to pay…

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    The Mayan Writing System

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    The writing system by the Mayan had a distinct approach to the scholars. Deciphering the writing represents and values who the Maya people really were. The Mayan writing was acknowledge and known as the emblem graph. The emblem graph represented certain cities around Guatemala. Spaniards colonized a better understanding of the Maya people using the Hieroglyphs. They were able to categorize the cities and discover which group belonged to what city. They were able to identify which city was at…

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    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 than attempts to offer the codex to their sacred mother but the ceremony did not go as planned. The Spanish soon heard the ceremony occurring which lead them into witnessing the sacrifice. Given the Spaniards disapproval of the Aztecs cultural, they…

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