Cortes A Hero Analysis

Cortes is a Hero, because he was only defending himself when he was being attacked by the native Americans. He is also a hero because in the text the spaniards kept on saying that the Native Americans made their first move and Moctezuma stole a couple of Corteses treasures. Cortes only fought the Native Americans because the spaniards didn’t want gold to be brought back to where the Native Americans were staying. According to Moctezuma, the Native Americans would argue that Cortez is a villain. However when the Native Americans first attacked and then stole the goods, the Spaniards had no reason to not fight back for what was once theirs. Also, in the text it said “A large number of Indians in full war-dress appeared with a tremendous shout
Besides this claim is further reinforced by knowing in the text it says that Native Americans fired first and took all of the supply goods from the Spaniards then left them with nothing and no other reason then to take back what was rightfully theirs. The Native Americans may argue that Cortes unsurpassed what they said. For example “the Indians great damage, without suffering anything worse than the toil and weariness of long hours of fighting without food...It was plainly manifest that God was fighting on our side.” Another example is “But the Aztec no longer at all dared to go there (to the Spaniards). They were greatly afraid; they were limp with fear; they were taken aback. Fear greatly prevailed (prove more power than opposite forces.); it spread about. No one dared come out. It was as though a wild beast were loose, as though it were the deep of night.” These show that the Aztecs truly did not like them and not only from the fight but also because the Native Americans just hated them with everything they
The Native Americans may argue that they didn’t do anything wrong, but it clearly shows in the text that they (the spaniards) fought back only because the Native Americans started the war. According to the text “Moctezuma returned with many various ornaments of gold, silver and featherwork, and some five or six thousand cotton clothes, richly dyed and embroidered in various ways, and having made me a present of them he seating himself on another low bench which was placed next to mind, and addressed me in this manner:..” Also the text says “Moctezuma returned with many various ornaments of gold, silver and featherwork, and some five or six thousand cotton clothes, richly dyed and embroidered in various ways, and having made me a present of them he seating himself on another low bench which was placed next to mind, and addressed me in this manner” Therefore, these both show that Moctezuma took some of Corteses treasures and made them into his own