Cortes’ ardent determination to bring back wealth‚ gold‚ and conquer the Aztecs’ most sacred land‚ Tenochtitlan‚ wasn’t enough to defeat them in a hard fought battle. Determination was just one of the many factors that helped the Spaniards defeat the pious Aztecs. The main five factors consist of the‚ Spanish Worldview‚ Aztec Worldview‚ Military Technology‚ Military Strategy‚ Spread of Disease. However‚ out of all of these factors‚ the most important would be Military Technology due to all the advantages
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The religions of both Aztec and Inca Empire‚ united and sacrificed population. However‚ Inca Empire forced their religion whereas the Aztec empire did not. The religion of Aztec‚ Mesoamerican religion‚ and the religion of Inca both played an important role in unifying their respective populations of the empire. The Aztec Empire had a central figure called Huitzilopochtli who would administer the Empire‚ army and the religion. He was an important figure in unifying the Aztec Empire. Similarly‚ Inca
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geography helped the Spaniards conquer the Incas/Aztecs militarily‚ geography for the Portuguese led to false assumptions
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The entire fall of the Aztec empire started with the fact that Cortes wanted to take over. He wanted to make it fall. So he set out with around 500 Spanish soldiers armed to the aztec Empire. Along the way‚ they came into contact with the Tlaxcala. When the came into contact‚ a battle burst out. Many of men were killed. Soon after many of the Tlaxcala were killed‚ the leaders along with a few other men finally said that they were enemies with the Aztecs and they would join in with the Spanish to
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The Most Remarkable Mayan Achievement No one knows how the Maya disappeared. It might have been overpopulation. Perhaps a disease of the heart. Maybe a war of war. Nonetheless‚ it goes without saying that the Mayan civilization was remarkable. Originating on the Yucatan Peninsula‚ the Maya survived for over 3000 years. They were an isolated group‚ in and outside their borders. They were never united by the same government throughout all of their time in Mesoamerica‚ and were divvy-ed up into city-states
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The Aztecs pushed southward into the rich agricultural lands of Central Mexico. In 1300 the Aztecs started to build their own empire. By 1500 they ruled a densely populated empire. The Aztecs were impressed into building elaborate canals and reclamation projects (Bulliet xxx). The Aztecs also built impressive cities‚ and promoted irrigation projects. Hernan Cortes‚ Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. The Conquistadors were 16th century Spanish individuals
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Ritual Gifts: Inuit Culture and Aztec Culture The two cultures that will be discussed in this paper have many similarities as well as gift exchanges and rituals that are important to the people. Inuit Culture takes part in animal sacrifice‚ for feeding the people. Placing fresh water into the mouth of the dead seal before it is cut up to eat; in doing this the hopes of the people are that the seal will come back for more water and feed the humans again. As for the Aztec Culture they perform human
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in 1466 and died on June 29th 1520. Monectzuma was the leader of the Aztec Empire from 1502 – 1520. The Spaniard murdered Montezuma in cold blood in order to complete their conquest of his empire. The Spanish relationship with Monctezuma was very manipulative and deceiving. From the beginning Cortes made moves to openly try to undermined Monctezuma. Cortes made early alliances with the know enemies of Monctezuma and the Aztecs. This is not the actions of a good and trust worthy friend. Someone who
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Therefore‚ after their first battle with the Spaniards‚ the Aztecs were overwhelmed with illness. This led to the fall of great Aztec Empire. However‚ even before this the Inca Empire had been swept by with the illness‚ smallpox‚ too. In order to rid themselves of the—curse (smallpox)—the gods had placed on them‚ the natives introduced new the religious ritual of drum and rattle incantations. However‚ due to the decline in the population‚ the Aztecs were quick to lose the war against the Spanish conquistadors
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The ancient Maya used a mathematical system that is “vigesimal.” A vigesimal counting system is based on 20 units (0 - 19)‚ instead of the 10 unit (0 - 9) based counting system that we use today called the decimal system. The decimal mathematical system widely used today is believed to have possibly originated by counting the number of fingers that the average person has. Counting with our fingers gives us our ten unit based metric system. It is believed that the Maya possibly began counting with
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