and the return of their god. In 1519‚ the Spanish explorer‚ Hernan Cortes arrived on the east coast of Mexico and to make sure his men cooperated with him marching across the jungle‚ he proceeded burned all of his ships. He continued his journey and took out the local tribe of indians. For 83 days straight‚ Cortes and his men marched across jungles and mountains into the Valley of Mexico. Cortes arrived in Tenochtitlan with
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Bernal Diaz de Castillo wrote about a quest that he was fortunate enough to participate with his soldier leader‚ Hernan Cortes. Hernan Cortes and his soldiers went on many different expeditions in order to expand their knowledge on the unknown world. Bernal Diaz de Castillo did not hold any type of leadership within his community; however‚ he was intelligent enough to know a new world apart from an old one. The New Spain that Castillo and his conquest mates experienced eventually led to the publication
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slavery and told the people in the village that she had died. So with having such a hard life when Cortes found out about her language skills she took advantage of the opportunity Cortes had gave her‚ she wanted to get out of the
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wanted explorers to find riches to bring back to Europe. Hernán Cortés led an expedition to Mexico in 1519. His ships carried 400 conquistadors with horses and weapons. They wanted fame and riches. Cortés had heard about the Aztecs. The Aztecs ruled an empire that covered much of present-day Mexico. Its capital city‚ Tenochtitlan‚ was beautiful and huge. It was twice as big as any European city. The Aztec ruler‚ Moctezuma‚ welcomed Cortés‚ but Moctezuma soon sent the Spaniards away. The conquistadors
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your calendar. Powerful astecas Mexico dominated the region when I Herman Cortes in 1519. Cortes‚ a Spanish captain‚ went to Mexico in search of adventure and riches. came ashore with few ships‚ soldiers and sailors and tried to conquer the Aztec nation. The remote recognition of the authority of the Christian church and the Spanish king. The indidenas had no firearms and consequently many were defeated by the Spaniards. Cortes also founded the city of Veracruz. The Indians believed the Spaniards
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13 August 1521 the Aztec capital‚ Tenochtitlan‚ had fallen to the Spanish conquistadors. Cortes and his followers had only landed in Mexico in April 1519. By the time of Cortes’ last departure form Spain in 1540; Mexico City had become a powerful colonial metropolis‚ the capital of a Spanish territory extending south into Central America and North to or beyond the Gulf of California. The campaign waged by Cortes was so successful that all ensuing campaigns were modelled upon the Aztec conquest. The
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The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521‚ led by Hernando Cortes‚ was a landmark victory for the European settlers. Following the Spanish arrival in Mexico‚ a huge battle erupted between the army of Cortes and the Aztec people under the rule of Montezuma. The Aztecs are a tribe‚ according to their own legends‚ from Aztlan somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. A major part of their life was religion. A polytheistic people‚ they often practiced human sacrifice to please their gods . The Aztecs
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The Spanish Empire I. The Conquistadors A. Hernando Cortés (1485-1547) 1. All of the New World was Spain’s‚ except Brazil (ignoring English claims). Cristobo Columbo and his brother had established a handful of small colonies (including Cuba)‚ but in the first 15 years or so of the 16th Century Spain didn’t control much territory; this would soon change. 2. In 1519‚ Hernando Cortés landed in Mexico at Vera Cruz (which he founded). He had 600 men. His orders were to establish a colony;
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believed that the diseases which killed around a third of the Native Americans while sparing the Spanish (who were immune after surviving childhood infections) were sent by an angry god as punishment for their misbehavior. Within the fifty years of Cortes’ arrival in central Mexico only one in ten Native Americans survived and the population declined from 30 to 3 million. These epidemics also happened in many other isolated communities throughout the world‚ such as the Aborigine and Maori people of
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Every person in the world has a motive for something‚ whether for materialistic things or for survival purposes‚ people will always be motivated to do something to gain something. Alexander the Great was no different. He was raised by both his parents‚ however at times unbeknownst to him‚ his parents had motives of their own regarding what they wanted from Alexander. Additionally with his father’s background of military and “Hellenic Alliance” (Lane Fox‚ p.229) it is not hard to see that Alexander
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