Tenochtitlan

There are many words that one can use to describe the indigenous people of Mesoamerica: brilliant architects, pioneers in mathematics and astrometry. However, there are a few words that are hardly ever utter out loud; cannibals and superficial individuals who perform human sacrifice. To our modern society, the practices of the Aztec people may seem a bit strange and a little bit extreme but to the Native people it was a part of their religious practices. If you can imagine it, it would be like…

The Massacre of the Great Temple is a famous incident that occurred during the overtaking of the Aztec Capital city ‘Tenichititlan’ by the Spanish in the year 1520. While this famous massacre is most often remembered of the fall of the Aztec Empire, and the rise of Spanish domination in the region, the fall of the empire was most attributed to Hernan Cortes and his small army of men disregarding orders from the Spanish crown, and using violence and persuasion to bring down an empire. In the…

who first conquest of Cuba and thereafter turn his head to the Mexico to conquest as well. In 1519 he sorted out attack of Mexico. Thereafter, he arrived in Mexico on April 22, 1519. By 1521, he had taken all the control of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( Mexico City ).After his conquest of Mexico , Spanish chroniclers offered him to write what he saw in Mexico, thereafter he had to write these letters to show what he see in Mexico. His letters was first published in 1522. His reason to…

Within section 1 of chapter 3, I have chosen two people to compare and contrast. I chose Christopher Columbus and Hernán Cortás because when they first discovered new land, they both acted the same way towards the natives. When Christopher Columbus sailed west in 1492, he sailed into the now known West Indies. When he arrived 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…

The Aztecs were ethnic groups of central Mexico who ruled an empire in the modern- day of Mexico from 1428-1521. From their capital city of Tenochtitlan presently the side of modern-day Mexico, the Aztecs had many ach ievements. Two th ings they are most known for include their farming method and use of human sacrifice. However, h istorians should emphasize the role of human sacrifice in Aztecs culture. Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more human beings. Human sacrifice is usually…

The Aztecs were in the 14th, 15th, and 16th century. They came to rule up to 500 small states, and 5 to 6 billion people. The Aztecs were the most powerful kingdom of all time. They formed an alliance with two other cities Texcoco and Tlacopan. Tenochtitlan was the heart of the Aztec civilization. The Aztec didn’t rule connected territories. They were conquering cities, and powers over areas. Europeans arrived in 1519. Reaching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. The religion was a mixture…

While presenting a lecture on the “Danger of a Single Story” in a 2009 Ted Talk in London England, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie remarked that if a people are shown as one thing, over and over again, that is what they become. For centuries the conquest of Mexico and the fall of the Aztec empire has been a single story told through only European accounts. In The Broken Spears Miguel León-Portilla provides an account of the first arrival of European colonizers through a collection of codices authored…

European exploration had a mostly negative impact on the native people of Congo and New Mexico. There are very many reasons that prove this to be true. Both of these nation states were struggling to survive, losing a great deal of people from a variety of different things like slavery and war. The Portuguese and Spaniards only cared about themselves and would do anything if it benefitted them. The negative impact that European exploration had on these places took a toll on them and was a very…

I was a conquistador sailing the Saint Lawrence, searching for the Lost Kingdom of Gold, beyond the north-west passage to Cathay, and next to me stood Hitler and TRMP, my lieutenants. We were coming from conquering the kingdom of Tenochtitlan, hundreds of miles south, where the weather was much less inclement... The whole frozen river and the seconds became hours and the hours became weeks, and now the whole boat was a realm of cold, ice and stalactites, which began to penetrate into…

All across the world many credit the Europeans for the discovery of the Americas, however, adjacent to what people may think, the Europeans most certainly were not the first civilized people to arrive in North America. While many believe Columbus was the first to discover North America in 1492, he had actually been beaten to the punch by more than 12,000 years by the Paleo-Indians. During the Paleolithic revolution about 40,000 years ago, a life based on hunting, and gathering appeared in…