1.+Hernan+Cortes+Conquers+Mexico+(1519-1526)+and+2.+Aztec+Chroniclers+Describe+the+Spanish+Conquest+of+Mexico+(1519)

A- Hernan Cortes PT- Time: 1519-1526, Place: Mexico PK- Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztecs. Cortes describes his first encounter with Moctezuma and his efforts to suppress their religious practices, especially human sacrifices. A- King of Spain R- To tell the King of Spain how things have been going in newly-founded Mexico TMI- Cortes is explaining how the Aztecs live and act S- Its important because it slows what the Aztecs believed in and how they worshiped their gods.
 * __1. Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519-1526)__**

__**2. Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519**)__ A- Sahagun's Witness PT- Time 1519, Place: Mexico PK- The Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun arrived in Mexico in 1529, mastered the indigenous language Nahuatl, and gathered from his Aztec informants a history of their civilization. One of Sahagun's witnesses describes the encounter between Moctezuma and Cortes from the Aztec perspective. A- Bernardino de Sahagun R- To tell what really happened when the Spaniards came to Mexico TMI- The witness is revieling that the Spaniards weren't nice colonists, they were murduring brutes S- This is important because this is the truth of what really happened back then.

Cortes made it seem like when he got to Mexico, he conquered the Aztecs, but really they all willingly gave him everything because they thought he was a god. Cortes took advantage of them and took most of their gold and made them work for him. Sahagun's witness revieled to us the fraud that Cortes really is. The witness showed us that when Cortes first got there, he took advantage of the Aztec people by telling them that they are the gods and that they love the Aztecs. Sahagun's witness revieled the true history of what really happened and Cortes turned out to be the savage, rather than the Aztecs.
 * __Comparing and Contrasting of 1. and 2.__**