Cortes

Hernando Cortes on Meeting Moctezuma & Destroying the Aztec Empire In the early 1500’s, people traveled their whole lifetime, all across the world, just to find two things, gold and property. Gold, the world basically revolved around it and you would do anything to just get your hands on it. It determined who you were in life, your social status and what kind of life you lived. You also wanted to own as much property as you could for multiple reasons. Having more land, led to more people, creating

When Moctezuma and Cortes first met I believe that Moctezuma welcomed Cortes as the new leader of the Aztec’s. Based off of the documents I have read and the video I watched, I believe that is what happened. Moctezuma welcomed Cortes as the new king and told him they had been waiting for him. Both documents A and B provided me with details of their first meeting. In document A, it states that Moctezuma tells Cortes that the Aztecs have learned about the descendents of their natural leader before

life. Cortes was most impressed by Tenochtitlán's size, design, and construction, praising the city's bridges, wide streets, and many squares. He also noted the harmony and peacefulness of the city, since he and the other Spaniards considered the natives to be savages and barbarians. These views were one of the things that Cortes used to justify his actions, as well as the authority of the king. In the letter, he recounts how a Spaniard saw a native eating another native, and how Cortes told the

Did you know that Hernando Cortes conquered a whole native empire known as the Aztecs? He also discovered Baja California. Hernando Cortes was a spanish conquistador that was most famous for conquering the Aztec Empire. Hernando Cortes killed and conquered to make it to the top. Hernando Cortes was born in 1485. Him and his family were an upper class family but they were not rich. His dad was a leader of a spanish army. Cortes didn’t have many decisions to choose from when it came to his career

Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador, famous for his conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico in 1519, and his discovery of the New World. As the first governor of New Spain, Cortes himself rebuilt a city and extended his expeditions up to California. Hernan Cortes was born sickly and palely around 1485 in Medellin, Spain from a noble family. At the age of 14, his mom sent him to study Latin and law in Salamanca University. In Salamanca, Cortes became a good writer, and later on during his expedition

During the 1500s Hernan Cortes traveled to the Aztec civilizations of Mesoamerica, and more in particular, Tenochtitlan with the mindset to take on the land of the natives. When he got there, he was uneasy with what he saw, which is evident in the letters that Cortes wrote to Charles V. “It happened...that a Spaniard saw an Indian...eating a piece of flesh taken from the body of an Indian who had been killed (Cortes).” Cortes viewed the Aztecs living in Tenochtitlan as completely barbaric because

10/3/2016 CORTES: PRAISE OR BLAMEWORTHY? Cortes was a noble Spanish conquistador, and a secretary under the governor of the new world. This man was responsible for many unnecessarily brutal clashes, which brought down the civilization known as the Aztec empire. While some scholars think that Cortes is a heroic figure, he took away lives for his own monetary and political gain; this is an unjustified crime even by the standards of his time. Disobeying his superior Velasquez, Cortes set off as Capitan

Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador which meant that he went out to conquer land with his army. He and his army were thirsty for gold, taking other people’s treasure to make it into theirs an example of that were the Aztecs. The Aztecs were people who had build a big empire in in Tenochtitlan and they had large amounts of gold but soon enough that empire was destroyed by Hernan killing and conquering people to the point that the Aztecs became afraid of the Spanish.Therefore, Hernan Cortes is a

Cortes showed up to the Aztec’s land planning on conquering it to be part of Spain. He did not want to negotiate with the Aztecs, he just wanted their land, with or without them. The Aztecs thought that he was a God and gave him extreme amounts of gold when he first arrived, but that did not satisfy Cortes. Cortes held a meeting with the leader of the Aztecs, Montezuma, and captured him, causing the Aztecs to fight the Spanish to get their leader back. Once the Spanish started to make a move to defeat

Hernán Cortés (Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro) was a Spanish conquistador and a New World explorer. Cortes was the explorer that sailed, discovered and concord the Aztecs of Mexico. He also had high authority in Mexico and Spain. Cortés was born on the 2 of December 1485 in Medellín, Spain but while he was young Cortes a very sick for most of his childhood. At the age of 14 Cortes was sent to the University of Salamanca to study law to become a lawyer. But Cortes was unhappy and became fantasied