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__Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519-1526) A-__ Hernan Cortes __P/T-__ 1519-1526 in current day Mexico of the New World in the Aztec city. __P/K-__ Spanish conquistadores lead by Hernan Cortes land in the New World at modern day Mexico. The group of conquistadores come upon group Native Americans in Mexico that are called Aztecs. The Aztec city is the city of gold, and many of the sacred buildings are built out of pure gold. When Hernan Cortes comes upon the Aztecs they believe that he is a God on Earth. Their description of the God on Earth fit their circustances perfectly. The King of the Aztecs gives up his throne to Hernan since he believes Cortes is a God. The King gives Cortez almost half of the gold in the entire Kingdom to keep them from starting a war with them. One day Cortes cuts himself when shaving, and the Aztecs know the he is not a God because Gods don't bleed. So the Aztecs drove the conquistadores out of Mexico. Then two years later Cortes came back to the city to find out that the Aztecs have perished from disease the the conquistadores brought over. __A-__Created for the King of Spain. It affects the reliability because Cortes is writing what he thinks the King of Spain wants to hear, and he only states the positive parts. __R-__ Cortes wrote this letter to the King of Spain in order to tell him of his great success and achievment in exploring the New World. He wanted the King to know what the Aztecs thought of Cortes and the King. Also, he wanted to share the experience as if the King was Actually there, so that the King would know what the situtation was like, how it went, and how the Aztec people behave. __TMI-__ This source is trying to convey that the first contact with the Aztects was a success, and that both of the groups were getting along well. This is also significant because the King os Spain will get the main idea of what occured when Cortes went to the New World. __S-__ This Source is important because it is how the meeting with the Aztecs went in Cortes's eyes, and he left out a lot of details when writing it. All the King will know is what is written in that letter, so Cortes can manipulate pretty much anything that he wants to.

__Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico ( 1519)__ A- One of Sahagun's witnesses (Aztec's perspective) P/T- 1519 in current day Mexico of the New World in the Aztec city. P/K- Spanish conquistadores lead by Hernan Cortes land in the New World at modern day Mexico. The group of conquistadores come upon group Native Americans in Mexico that are called Aztecs. The Aztec city is the city of gold, and many of the sacred buildings are built out of pure gold. When Hernan Cortes comes upon the Aztecs they believe that he is a God on Earth. Their description of the God on Earth fit their circustances perfectly. The King of the Aztecs gives up his throne to Hernan since he believes Cortes is a God. The King gives Cortez almost half of the gold in the entire Kingdom to keep them from starting a war with them. One day Cortes cuts himself when shaving, and the Aztecs know the he is not a God because Gods don't bleed. So the Aztecs drove the conquistadores out of Mexico. Then two years later Cortes came back to the city to find out that the Aztecs have perished from disease the the conquistadores brought over A- Created for the Aztec people. It doesn't affect the reliability of the souce because it is from an eyewitness's perspective. R- This source was created to tell the story of when the conquistadores came over to the New World, and the first greetings, and contact with one another. TMI- This source is important because it tells the side of the story that the Aztecs were on, which is a more truthful version. It also shows how the Aztec people feel about Cortes just walking up into their city. The Aztecs thought that they came hear to make war, and then they saw Cortes as a God and gave him the throne right away thinking that he has come back to his throne. __S-__ This source is important because it states the truth of went on in the meeting of the Aztecs and the conquistadores. It tells the story in the Aztec's point of view, and includes a lot more details. The way this was written shows how the Aztecs feel about the conquistadores and them being in their city.

__Comparing and Contrasting the Two Stories__ In the first story that Cortes told, the King and him got along perfectly, aned they had no problems whatsoever. They greeted each other with gifts fo necklaces and calming words. He acted as if the King of Spain they adored and thought that he was their powerful ruler, but when in reality it was Cortes that they thought was their ruler. Also, the Aztecs thought that the conquistadores came over to them to start a war with them. The Aztecs were very excited to show the Spaniards their fiesta, rituals, and dancing. So they got everything together to show off to the Spaniards and try to impress them with their elaborate dancing. As they were dancing the Spaniards got up and blocked every entrance and started to attack the performing Aztecs. They vrutally slew the Aztecs, and killed off every last one of them in the performance. Some of the peole decided to hide in the huts, or lay down with the dead, but as soon as one of those gave their position away by standing up or trying to escape the Spaniards killed them. The Aztecs only tried to keep peace, and be friendly to their visitors, but the Spaniards decided to go agaist those nice gestures, and kill off the people who were being so nice to them. The story that Cortes told has a little truth to it like the greeting of necklaces, but that is about it. Everything else is untruthful, and he didn't state the massacre that occured during the fiesta.