Hernando Cortes was born around 1485 in Medellin Spain. He was born to a less noble family. Cortes was seen as a sick boy. His parents sent him to the university of Salmanca to study law at the age of 14. However he was not happy and eventually came home but was not happy there either. He wanted to be part of the New World. Cortes decided to pursue being a soldier and was soon put on an expedition to explore the New World. Cortes never made it on board due to an injury he received while climbing
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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
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returning god Quetzalcoatl‚ and by making this mistake based on his flawed belief system brought about the destruction of the empire and his people. The text tells us that Montezuma and Cortes take many walks together. On one such walk Montezuma begins to question Cortes about Christianity. At this point Cortes has obviously explained the concept of the Father‚ the Son‚ and the Holy Ghost. Montezuma then asked the question of “where is the mother?” Montezuma is intrigued by concepts of one god three
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The Aztecs and their relationship with Cortes The relationship between Cortes and the Aztecs was fake. The Aztecs thought Cortes was a god who came to fulfill a promise. Tenochtitlan (the Ancient capital city of the Aztec empire) was a very wealthy city. They had tons of gold and silver. Cortes and his soldiers wanted to have all the gold. The interaction between them When Cortes showed up‚ the Aztecs welcomed him with open arms. They treated him very kindly. However
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Tristan King Sept. 24th 2014 Conquistadors During the 15th and 16th century there was a large amount of conquistadors who took over huge amounts of North America through force. The two most influential must be Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortes‚ who took control of what later became the United States of America and Mexico. In 1492 Columbus sets out on his first journey searching for a trade route to Asia through the west. However instead of finding Asia when he hits land‚ he is surprised
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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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Hernan Cortes landed on the east coast of the Aztec empire where the natives mistaken for Quetzalcoatl. Cortes ran with it and told his men to shine their armor so they will reflect the sun making them to appear to have a Heavenly glow. This worked well even convincing the leader of the Aztec empire -Montezuma II- that Cortez and his men were deities. On Cortez’s way to the capitol‚ Tenochtitlan Cortes gained allies among the natives under Aztec control. Montezuma II made the mistake of sending big
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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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Summoned the following response from Cortes; “The majority of Spaniards who come here are of low quality‚ violent and vicious.” This ultimately led to Charles backing down in 1526 and allowing Cortes‚ and later Pizzaro‚ to issue temporary encomienda’s to their men. It is therefore evident that whilst Charles did make attempts to tackle challenges specific to individual countries through diplomatic means‚ he was perhaps too preoccupied with tackling an array of other matters to possess genuine‚ universal
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Hernán Cortés was born in Medellin‚ Extremadura‚ Spain in the year 1485. Cortés was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain. Cortes was born in a wealthy family before his conquest of Mexico Cortes wanted to become a lawyer but failed to do so. Cortes was inspired of the stories he heard about the new world but what motivated him even more was the wealth the new world could bring him. In the year of 1502 at the age of 19 years old Cortés joined
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