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    3.02 México interior - Práctica A. Answer the following about the Aztecs and the Conquistadors. 1.Describe the life of the Aztecs. What is Tenochtitlan? How big was that city? Life of the Aztecs was a particular horizon of a general Mesoamerican civilization. Tenochtitlan was a big city in Mexico. 2.What was sold at the Aztec market? Food & necessities were sold at the Aztec market for work. 3.What was the main staple of the Aztec diet? The main staple was corn and after that it

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    The pre-Columbian Maya kept whole libraries of books that contained information about their history‚ beliefs‚ astronomy and calendars. Most of these books were destroyed during the Spanish Conquest. They were burned because the Christian conquistadors believed they containing writings about the devil. Three of these books‚ called Codices‚ managed to survive today. They are the only three codices whose authenticity is beyond a doubt in authenticity. They are: The Madrid Codex‚ or the "Tro-Cortesianus

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    What are robber barons? what did robber barons do during the railroad era? • Robber Barons was the negative term for the titans of industry or‚ as Professor Donald Miller calls them‚ the capitalist conquistadors. These were the guys like Andrew Carnegie‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ Gustavus Swift‚ Philip Armour‚ John D. Rockefeller and others who rose to the top and ran monopolies or near-monopolies in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900ish). They were seen as bad because they employed ruthless methods to run

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    During the time before the conquest on Inca the civilization began to face a crisis. The death of their emperor Huayna Capac‚ brought about a power struggle between the two sons of the former emperor‚ that initiated a civil war. This civil war weakened the imperial state and effectuated the conquering of the Inca by Fracisco Pizaro in 1532. All these conquest and many more of the Latin Americas provide the background information of the commencement of the changes in religion and beliefs in Latin

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    One very obvious action that the european did was take control of all land and took many once strong civilizations to near extinction in culture. Cortez when to conquer the Aztec empire. Cortez was thought to be a god by Montezuma II who was the “king” of the empire at the time so He allowed free passage for the spaniards into the city. Once they were in they kidnapped the king and executed him publicly. Ten the native started to push the spaniards out of the city. Once Cortez was out of the city

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    Phillip will find a means to regulate the activities in the Americas and put an end to the hardships of her natives and possibly unearth a way to avenge the use of his good name‚ country and faith for such a merciless show of power. As for those Conquistadors who possess sin filled hearts and who have taken so many innocent lives‚ they must "wait until the Day of Judgment when all shall be made clear and God will come to punish the wickedness and awful behavior towards the inhabitants of the New World

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    Phillip will find a means to regulate the activities in the Americas and put an end to the hardships of her natives and possibly unearth a way to avenge the use of his good name‚ country and faith for such a merciless show of power. As for those Conquistadors who possess sin filled hearts and who have taken so many innocent lives‚ they must "wait until the Day of Judgment when all shall be made clear and God will come to punish the wickedness and atrocious behaviour towards the inhabitants of the New

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    The Spanish conquistadors were successful in their battles against the inhabitants of the New World largely due to the native disunity among the various tribes of Mexico. Local tribes had differing political‚ religious‚ and cultural beliefs‚ and often waged wars against each other. As a result‚ an enemy’s enemy often became an ally‚ as evidenced in Cortes’ alliance with the Tlaxcalteca group. Tlaxcalteca was an enemy of Cholula‚ and members in the Traxcalteca community “brought certain rumors to

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    heaven. Preached in Samaria‚ Judea‚ and Spain. First Apostle to be martyred. He was stabbed with a sword by King Herod Agrippa I in Jerusalem in the year 44. 1492 was also the year the Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. Columbus and his conquistadors had a special devotion to the image of Mary that had appeared in the mountains of Spain that same year. Tradition tells us that St. Luke the evangelist made the image. The advocation of the image was "A Virgin of Guadalupe‚" named after the

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    greatest achievement was their stone temples. With great height‚ and innovation‚ the Aztecs are known for their great buildings. The main people who were involved in the fall of the Aztecs were Montezuma the Aztec king‚ and Hernan Cortes- a Spanish conquistador. Hernan and his soldiers came in search of gold and riches in the new world. When they stumbled upon the Aztecs‚ Montezuma believed Cortes was a god and gave him precious stones and feathered crowns. The greedy Cortes wanted more and marched into

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