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__Source Book Summer Assignment- Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519-1526) A-__ Hernan Cortes- spanish conquistador who arrives in Mexico in 1519 __P-__ Written in the Yucatan Peninsula on October 30, 1520 __P-__ Hernan Cortes was a spanish conquistador who ventured to Mexico in search of expanding Spain's rule. When Cortes lands, he meets the Aztecs who are native to this area. He then is treated like an Aztec god according to the age old legend. Cortes is then treated as such with bountiful amounts of gold, jewels, and food. Eventually, the power goes to his head, and makes a mistake of revealing his true identity. Cortes is driven out of Mexico by the Aztecs, only to come back one year later to find all of the Aztecs had died to to foreign disease. __A-__ The King of Spain, in 1519, sent Cortes on the journey to Mexico. The King of Spain is the audience of this passage so he would not worry about his troops. This source is very reliable because it sparked the spanish influence in Mexico. __R-__ Spain needed to expand its empire during the European Manifest Destiny __T-__ To inform the King of Spain of what the Spanish Conquistador had come across and interacted with in Mexico. __S-__ This source is important because it starts the Spanish influence in Mexico because after the Aztecs had been exterminated, Spain settled and started to colonize in that area.

__Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519) A__- A Spanish Franciscan friar named Bernardino de Sahugun wrote this passage, but one of his witnesses explains his encounter with him by translating this passage into spanish. __P-__ Written in Mexico in 1529. __P-__ As stated in the previous APPARTS method above, Hernan Cortes travels by ship to Mexico with many soldiers. Hernan and his soldiers are greeted by the Aztecs, who treat Cortes like a god. Fortunately for the Aztecs, they are able to find the truth about Cortes, and drive him out of their sacred city. About one year later, Hernan Cortes returns with an even larger fleet of Spanish troops, only to find all of the Aztecs dead because of foreign disease. __A-__ There is no audience to whom one of Sahagun's witnesses is writing to, although, this passage may have been written in a document to be preserved. This source may not be very reliable because there is no audience. __R-__ The friar may have found it astonishing enough that a foreinger landed in Mexico, he needed to record this special date. Eventually, the friar wanted to explain how the spanish were treating the Aztecs. __T-__ The main idea is to state his own opinion about the Spainards landing on his land uninvited. He shows how the spanish were willing to do anything just for power. __S-__ This source is important because it gives the Aztec opinion about the Spaniards landing in Mexico. The Aztecs realize that all the Spanish really wants is power.

__Paragraph__ These two passages are very similar but also very similar. They are similar because they both talk about how the other is murderous. Although, the second passage talks about more violence than the first paragraph. The friar's passage describes the brutal murders of the natives, while Cortes writes about the native sacrifices. However, these passages are also very different. The friar's passage was written ten years later than the actual arrival of the spaniards. Cortes' passage was written only one year later and could be a more acurate source than the second. Also, the first passage is considered a primary source, while the second passage is considered a secondary source. I think that both passages are more different than similar because the second passage is more biased than the first passage due to the time when it was written.