Tenochtitlan

civilization settled in Central America, or modern day Mexico, and lasted approximately 300 years, from 1345-1521 AD. The Aztec people lineage traces back to the barbarian chichimecs. Their name also means ‘people of Aztlan’. The capital of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan dates back to 1345, the start of their civilization. Their population was one of the biggest of their time period, with roughly twenty five million people the Aztecs rapidly expanded over the course of approximately two hundred years.…

In the book, Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico, Camilla Townsend illustrates the life of an enslaved native American and the choices she had to make during the conquering of her native land. Malintzin was a slave to the Spaniards, and the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes, obtained her by defeating a tribe and winning her as a gift. Cortes originally gave Malintzin to one of his captains, unknowing of her value to translate between the Spanish and indigenous people…

As the world grew and civilizations rose, there were those who used brute force, manipulation, and raping of cultures to gain money, power, and complete control of what they so desired. First starting off with the spanish capture of mexico and then the complete takeover of the Native Americans by the new American settlers. The book that will be used to help explain everything will be Juan Gonzalez revised edition of Harvest of Empire:A History of Latinos in America. When the world was young many…

To know a Mexican you must know the past you must know their ancestors and what they have been through. Mexico has been not through one conquest, but two conquests. Mexico was made of many different indigenous groups before the 1st conquest. More than ninety two percent of the population in Mexico was killed. The eight percent that remained either became a slave or fled north of Mexico to what now is Texas, California and New Mexico. The second conquest consisted in land being taken over by the…

The ways that the Nahua theater produced plays, it is easy to see how they could have inadvertently helped preserve pagan beliefs of the Nahua. The use of allegorical figures in the plays, such as the Final Judgement, could have been very confusing to viewers and actors. Using people dressed up as Penance, The Holy Church, Sweeping, Time, and Death to convey ideas that are not material or human could have added to pagan ideas that previously existed. Another preexisting idea of the native people…

There are some similarities between the Aztecs and Spartans in this area. One way is that both empires were led by monarchs. The Aztecs Empire was led by a monarch that lived in Tenochtitlan, the capital of the empire. The Aztec monarchs claimed that they were descended from the gods (Spielvogel 143). Similarly, the Spartans were led by two kings that came from separate families (Bradeen). There are also some differences between the…

They both have different capital cities. Of course they did not live in the same area so they did not have the same capital. The capital of Inca was Cuzco. The capital of the Aztec was Tenochtitlan. Of course they did not have same same capital, it was very different from the other tribes capital. They had sacrificed way differently. The Inca had sacrificed the children because they were the most pure and a honor for the gods. The Aztec…

Since the first material regarding the Jesuit Relations has been published in the seventeenth century in France, it has given numerous worthy sources for researchers. These religious reports got widespread with the progress of the times for scholars in the 1890s because of national-scale seventy-three-volume publication. And then, multiple editors and translators gathered all the Relations to combine with other Jesuit resources. After that, they made that in public in multilinguistic format…

ferocious war upon each other” and “[ate] human flesh” (Sepulveda). This belief of European supremacy, along with their savage image of Native Americans, allowed the Spanish to justify their mission of converting natives to Catholicism. In 1521 in Tenochtitlán, the Spanish burned down Aztecs’ temples to make way for Catholic cathedrals, for missionaries aimed to have the Aztecs, who practiced human sacrifice, “observe the Christian religion and correct their sins” (Las Casas). A few decades…

enemies” (Sepulveda). This establishment of European superiority over the Aztecs justified the conversion to Catholicism, as the Aztec people viewed the Spaniards as all powerful beings. In 1521, the Spaniards razed and ransacked the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán, which paved the way for Catholic missionaries and their constructions of new catholic churches. This magnitude of destruction allowed the missionaries to show the “barbaric” Aztecs their unscrupulous ways and lead them to “correct their…