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1)Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico-1519-1526

A-Hernan Cortes

P-October 30, 1520, Segura de la Frontera

P-Hernan Cortes encountered the Aztec people and they believe he was a God. They had a legend that a god would come from the horizon (the ocean), would be covered in sunlight (the sun reflecting off of his armor), and with him would be very large dogs (his horses). They took his men in as servants of the god. The Aztec ruler Montezuma gave up his throne for him and he now ruled the Aztec people. After they had already given him very large shipments of gold, he wanted more and forced them to melt their golden buildings and monuments in order for him to have more gold. He was caught shaving when he was cut and he was forced out of Mexico. A year later he came back, expecting a war, to find the Aztec people almost wiped out by disease.

A-The emperor of Spain.

R-It was sent to inform the Emperor about his progress in ruling Mexico and of all the gold he received and shipped.

T-Tells how Cortes is ruling Mexico and the Aztec people.

S-Shows Cortes's point of view on what was going on in Mexico when he was ruling the Aztecs.

2)Aztec Chronicles Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico-1519

A-One of Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sabagun's witnesses.

P-1529-Mexico.

P-Different from Cortes's, the Aztec's described what happened as Cortes arriving in the city and taking Montezuma prisoner and forcing him to send the gold. Aztec cheifs did not like this but they proceeded anyway. They threw a party for the occasion and most of the Aztecs ended up getting murdered for no reason by the Spaniards anyway.

A-Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sabagun

R-It tells us the story for the Aztec's point of view rather than Cortes's widely known side of the story.

T-A witness who experienced everything Cortes did is telling the story of what really happened.

S-It is important because now we know both sides of Cortes's overruling of Mexico and the Aztec people.

Cortes's side of the story expresses how he was viewed as a God and a king. He made it seem as if the Aztec people were a weak, unsophisticated, and savage group of people. He told the story as if the Aztec people just handed the gold to him like it was no big deal. The Aztec side of the story tells how Cortes's assumptions of their people is completely wrong. The author of the second reading shares his story of how they came in an slaughtered the Aztec's for no reason, just like savages would have done. He also shares how they did not like the idea of how he was taking all of their gold. So overall, it was almost as if Cortes's assumptions about the Aztec people some what represented the actions of him and his men.
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