The Fall of the Aztec Empire
In this essay I will tell how the Aztec and Inca empires ended, and also I will compare the fall of both empires, using for a point of departure the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the land of Mexico. Wherever the Spanish went always the same thing happened, from my point of view. Innocent people were killed for no good reason, cities were massacred, civilizations were destroyed or forced to convert to Christianity. And so, I think now is the time to reevaluate the actions of the European explorers who subjugated the native American peoples and their civilizations. Undoubtedly the most glorified and heroically portrayed of these figures of the European conquest of the New World were the conquistadors, the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16-th century. These men, under leaders such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizzaro nearly eliminated the Aztec and Inca peoples. Surely many of these soldiers were extremely cruel and intolerant of the native populations. But it is important to consider, with the push of both sides toward territorial expansion, how these groups (European and American) could remain isolated from each other. Furthermore, with meeting of these two imperialist cultures, it must be considered wheth
None of his written memoirs show the slightest wish to understand the Indians; in reality, he condemned them before having known them even in the most superficial manner. The resulting extension of the Spanish empire, New Spain, was the most strongly united of the American empires for years to come. From the point of view of what we know today it seems impossible that Europe could have remained completely ignorant until the XVI century with respect a civilization that by then had existed in Mexico for more than one thousand five hundred years. The Spaniards' disgust with the barbaric rites of the Aztecs gave them an excuse to force the Aztecs (and later the rest of the Mexicans) down into the lowest echelons of the new Hispanic society. These bulls gave the Spanish title to Columbus' discoveries and any non-Christian western lands discovered as long as the native populations were converted to Christianity. As told in the origin stories, the founder of the Inca dynasty and its capital Cuzco, was Manco Capac. It is likely that he died of smallpox or another such disease. This mineral wealth included vast amounts of gold and silver ore. Unfortunately for Atahuallpa Inca, who seemed to have gained the advantage over his brother Huascar in the struggle to become emperor, the Spaniards arrived at exactly the wrong time. But in the early 1500's something unusual happened. The conquerors banished the Aztecs from their city and began to clear it. Across the Atlantic Ocean, another great empire had recently accomplished s consolidation of its own. The popes had intentionally given sovereignity over any new lands discovered to Portuguese; but with advent of Columbus' discovery, the Spanish wished to end this legacy of Portuguese favoritism in the Vatican. The instructions of the king, though, included a clause by which Cortes, in cases of trouble, could take the actions that would best suit to the service of Our Lord God.
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