Another explorer is Hernan Cortes. Cortes was a famous explorer within Mexico. Cortes found about the Aztecs and their valuables. He was greedy and wanted to conquer Tenochtitlán. Cortes met the king of the Aztecs‚ Montezuma. Cortes took Montezuma captive within his own city. However‚ Governor Velasquez from Cuba sent another expedition under conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez to take command from Cortes. Cortes left Tenochtitlan to fight Narvaez. After taking care of Narvaez‚ Cortes returned to Tenochtitlan
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of thirty years of the exploration‚ the discoveries of Columbus seemed illustory. They tell that in 1519 the promise came true by Hernan Cortes’s march into Mexico. Almost in the year of 1545‚ the spanish conquest expanded from the north of Mexico to the souther part of Chile‚ and that caused the New World to make richier and filled the Spanish treasure chest. Cortes did not had a good communication between the Native Americans and him. He could not speak any Native Americans language. But he had
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Lesson 2: Thereby Hangs a Tale Verbs of Sensation and Indefinite Pronouns Can you imagine Hernán Cortes when he first entered Tenochtitlan? I’ll give you some information about the things he probably felt‚ watched‚ heard or noticed. Think if the action was completed or not. Then‚ use the verbs of sensation to report what happened. Follow the example. As he entered the city‚ he noticed some children following him. Incomplete: He heard the children shouting at him. Complete: He heard an Aztec girl
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Hernan Cortes’ main point in writing this piece was to show the king of Spain his attempt to reason with the natives and how he reacted to their refusal to agree with the requerimiento. Cortes supposedly entered peacefully into the natives’ land and expected them to accept a new God and the repossession of their land without any argument. Since the natives did not agree to requerimiento‚ Cortes saw fit that he defend himself by killing hundreds of people thought he had no business in entering their
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reason was to complete deeds or tasks assigned to them by a person or group of people like NASA. That is why both past and modern day explorers traveled. Do you know why Hernan Cortes traveled? He traveled by ship in order to conquer an empire for Spain. He traveled for a group called Cuba with a force of six hundred men. Hernan Cortes got arrested and attacked by the natives. One of interesting facts about him was that he died of pleurisy on his way back to Mexico. Do you know why Neil Armstrong traveled
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Broken Spears Hernan Cortés was a Spaniard who defeated the Mexica Confederation in many different ways. The most successful tactic he used to defeat the Aztecs were by European Weapons‚ but he also had different ways. Cortés had different advantages that the Aztecs didn’t‚ the Spanish brought over small pox. Many of his people were immune to it while the Mexica Confederation was not. Many people thought the Spanish were gods and gave them many gifts. Motecuhzoma thought Hernan Cortés was Quetzalcoatl
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supposed to come on the same year Cortes did‚ the God was supposed to come from the east on a ship and have a beard. Well‚ guess who did just that? Cortes and the Spaniards. The Aztecs had hundreds of thousands of warriors and would have defeated Cortes if they would have been prepared for war. Hernan Cortes was a very ruthless man with a very strong army. Even though Cortes had only about 1% of the population of the Aztecs‚ he still defeated Tenochtitlan. Cortes went to
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by a conquistador named Hernan Cortes‚ who destroyed the population of the Aztecs by the small pox disease. Although these two civilizations had many differences they also had several similarities. They both had a polytheistic religion‚ in which they sacrificed humans for their gods. The Incans and Aztecs both had a successful military made up. But sadly‚ both civilizations were defeated by the Spanish conquistadors. Paragraph 2: Comparing and Contrasting Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro:
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The Aztec religion was a complex belief system. Its many aspects were intertwined with everyday Aztec life and the lives of other cultures that surrounded the Aztec empire. Their pantheon of gods‚ their temples‚ their priests and rituals were well known throughout the empire‚ and are still known today. The Aztec religion led the Mexica to their homeland‚ impacted their relations with other cultures‚ and in part‚ caused their fall. The Aztec religion was a complex network of gods‚ priests‚ and rituals
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hile he is often now referred to as Hernán or Hernando Cortez (IPA: [korˈteθ])‚ in his time he called himself Hernando or Fernando Cortés ([korˈtes]). The names Hernán‚ Hernando and Fernando are all equally correct. The latter two were most commonly used during his lifetime‚ but the former shortened form has become common in both the Spanish and English languages in modern times‚ and is the name which many people know him by today.[1] Early life Cortés was born in Medellín‚ in the province of
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