Was the fall of the Aztec Empire inevitable? When Hernando Cortez and his conquistadors landed on the shores of Mexico, they had no idea what they were going to face. They set out searching for gold, and what they found was an advanced civilization of people with an incredibly beautiful city. Th...

On November 8, 1519 Hernan Cortez landed in the great city of Mexico accompanied by six hundred Spaniards and a great amount of native allies. Cortez's arrival in Mexico City was welcomed by the friendly Aztec people, who mistakenly believed that Cortez was one of their gods, Quetzalcoa...

Two of the biggest and greatest civilizations in the Americas were the Aztecs and the Incas. These two civilizations were both said to be conquered by the Spanish, but it was not just the Spanish who conquered them. They both also fell from a combination of a weak government, lack of technology, n...

Cortes was a very cruel Spanish explorer. In 1519 he conquered central and southern Mexico. His military triumphs led to 300 years of Spanish conquest. He went out to find gold and land, when he got there he found gold and beautiful land. He took the Aztecs land and gold. Cortes was born to a n...

The author argues that the Spanish were completely at fault for the total destruction of the Aztec Empire. In Broken spears, the author explains how many factors other than Spanish power contributed to the downfall of the Aztecs. Not only did the Spanish have many advantages over the Aztecs, but als...

Two of the biggest and greatest civilization in the Americas were the Aztecs and Incas. These two civilization were both said to be conquered by the Spanish, but it wasn't just the Spanish who conquered them. These two civilizations both fell from a combination of a weak government, lack of...

Contact: The Aztecs and the Spaniards The Spaniards landed on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico in 1519, where they where amazed to find the advanced society of the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire stretched along the Valley of Mexico, and Tenochititlan was the capital. The Aztecs were a powerful tribe; the...

The region now known Buenos Aires had outgrown Spain's political and economic domination in 1776. By May 25, 1810 a revolution broke out because of the discontent with Spanish interference. Soon in 1816 it led to an independence from Spanish rule. Independence revealed the furious regional disc...

Cortes and the Conquest of the Aztecs.The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs stands as one of the mostsignificant and influential turning points of the western world. It openedthe way for European colonization and brought forth vast changes on thenew world that are still felt today. It changed the cul...

Why was the first Mexican Revolution successful? Many factors made the first Mexican revolution successful. Revolutions in other countries, discontent people from all classes, and passionate revolutionaries were among the factors that led to a successful revolution. King Charles III took th...

"Azucar" or sugar in English, is a Spanish metaphor which means that you should live a sweet way your life. Usually this is said when people is complaining or overworking, or even if you are happy at a party or dancing, people will say Azucar as a way to remind you that life is beautiful and you sho...

Mexico is our neighbor to the south. The United States was once part of Mexico. A country is a place for tourism and vacations for us, but for Mexicans, it is home. Near the year 7000 B.C., Indians learned to grow plants for food. In time they were able to settle in villages. Those villages grew int...

The Aztec Indians, who are known for their domination of southern and central Mexico, ruled between the 14th and 16th centuries. Their name is derived from Azatlan, the homeland of the north. The Aztecs also call themselves Mexica and there language came from the Nahuatlan branch of the Uto-Aztecan ...

The Inca and the Aztec were alike in some ways but also had very large differences. The Inca lived on the northeastern coast of South America from 1450 AD to 1535 AD. The Aztecs lived in central Mexico from 1325 AD to 1523 AD. Let\'s look at the agriculture. The Inca had an advanced agriculture s...

The Conquest of Mexico and Peru The Conquest of Mexico began with Hernan Cortez. Cortez after working his way up as a soldier and a writer in Santa Domingo and Cuba was given a "rescue mission" to the Yucatan to search for Grijalva who hadn't returned from his expedition. Cortez g...

The Capital City Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. Mexico City is very well known for being the longest continuously inhabited city in the Western Hemisphere, and it is also the largest. The population of Mexico City is growing very quickly. At a population of 21 million people, abou...

On February 8, 1517 Francisco de Cordoba set sail from Cuba with 110 ships full of men to investigate the new world in search of riches and glory. Twenty-one days after their departure Cordoba's men found a small Mayan town. The natives fought a brief but bloody battle with the Spaniards and were de...

The Aztec Empire The Aztec Empire was a great empire until it was conquered by people from foreign lands. I believe that the main reason that Aztecs were conquered so easily was because they filled their own heads with fear. Fear ran throughout the minds of all the Aztecs which led to their downfa...

In 1521, the Aztec empire was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors in the city that is presently known as Mexico City. The Aztec people, and numerous surrounding civilizations, followed a polytheistic religion that appeased the gods with human sacrifice. With the arrival of the Spanish, this bel...

The Aztec Indians The Aztecs were an Indian people who lived in Central and Southern Mexico. They lived from the 14th to the 16th century. They made a huge empire based on conquest, paying tribute, and religious sacrifice of humans and animals. This is a map of the Aztec Empire by Larr...

In The Mysterious Maya, I learned a lot of things in regards to the history of the native inhabitants of Central America and in relation to the Spanish involvement thereafter. I learned a great deal about the culture and religion of the Maya and Aztec population. I had no idea the extent of the two ...

World History 3, period 5 June 6, 2000 There was a huge revolution in the country of Mexico that started in the year 1910, led by Porfirio Diaz, the president of Mexico in 1910. In the 1860's Diaz was important to Mexican politics and then was elected president in 1877. Diaz said that he wo...

The Aztecs were a great empire in Mexico during the 1400's and early 1500's. They were one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas. They built many great cities, the biggest being tenochitian. This city lies within the borders of what is now Mexico. The Aztecs Accomplished ma...

For the pass couple of weeks I had read about a president of Mexico. His named is Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia. He was born in the village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca. Both his parents die before he turn four. He worked in the corn field and as shepherd until the age of 12 then on December 17, 18...

\"Cubism is an attempt to combine three-dimensional sculpture and two-dimensional painting. You have to imagine walking around an object and piecing it together from several different sides in order to decide what the artist is trying to do\" (Ernest Goldstein). When Diego Rivera painted Zapatista ...