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...

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the world was a quite small place for Europeans. While they knew about China and Southern Africa, their worldview was still focused on Europe and the Mediterranean. Within 200 years, Europe would be almost all over the world with settlement on various conti...

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...

"May God deny you peace, but grant you glory, gentlemen, to the bulls" (pg. 226). Throughout Mexican history, the Spanish have been shown to be preoccupied with death and the thrill of risking their own natural lives. "Olé!" shouted the crowd as the great bull veered pas...

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...

Hernando Cortes was born in 1485 in a town called Medellin in Extremadura Spain. During the time of Cortes' youth, the town of his birth was "like the setting of a carnival for a growing boy" (Marks 3). Medellin was the home of an old castle from the days of the wars between the Spanish and the Mo...

"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...

Mexico Mexico, officially United Mexican States, is an important country because is sharing common border throughout its northern extent with the United States. Consequently, we should spend time analyzing and researching its human culture and environment because this culture is influences Un...

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...

The intentions of the Spanish were to both acquire wealth in the form of gold, as well as convert the Aztec people to the Christian faith during their conquest of Mexico. However, the Spaniards became engulfed in their own greed, and in the end gold became their main obsession. Being the highly re...