'Cortez and the Aztec Empire Conquest'

'On November 8, 1519, Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes, arrived in the advance(a) and advanced Aztec Empire, tended to(p) by euchre Spaniards and a extensive amount of intrinsic whollyies. Cortess arrival in Tenochtitlan was welcomed by the agree competent Aztec pile, who mistakenly believed that Cortes was bingle of their gods, Quetzalcoatl, who was characterized by liberal skin, red hair, and vindicated eyes (Marder). The Aztecs were automatic to share all their wealth and triumph with the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards precious the resistance of the Aztecs desires of worshipping them and showering them with valuable offerings; they wanted to obliterate their sightly land. After common chord years of poisonous battles between the deuce contrasting cultures, Cortes successfully achieved victory because of the Aztecs tearing tribute system, the Spaniards blue-ribbon(prenominal) military and progressive weapons, as considerably as a widely dust disease.\nBeca use of the Aztecs regular part of a acidulous tribute system, Cortes was able to victoriously batter the Aztecs. To the Aztec populate, the procedure of pitying sacrifice was exceedingly common. A historiographer in the theatre of the Aztec culture claims, ...the inconsistency of human sacrifice highly motivated the Spaniards to attach what they considered an unrelenting culture  (Cottrill). The Aztecs barbaric killings of innocent people made new(prenominal) surrounding people, such(prenominal) as the people of the powerful urban center of Tlaxcalan to join the Spaniards. many a(prenominal) of the Tlaxcalans were being sacrificed, therefore, desperately, lacking(p) to stop this cruel ritual, the Tlaxcalans united with the Spanish, therefore leading to a larger phalanx which would help the Spanish significantly, to successfully conquer the Aztec Empire. Cortes himself was similarly stimulate at the vagary of human sacrifice. ...Cortes would also have hear ab out separate equally drear ritual practices, including the slash open of the throats of infants, the beheading of young women, and the dressing of teenagers in rece... '