The Conquest Of Mexico

The conquest of Mexico

When talking about the history of Mexico, a series of events that have marked the life of each person in the country come to mind, this story is forged from their own knowledge. Similarly, the conquest was only the first episode of a sociocultural process that lasted as much as the Spanish empire. It was also used to evade interpretations where cruelty is highlighted. The weight of the circumstances of the place and time, the role played by some individuals, cannot be ignored in any analysis of the conquest. Without taking into account these factors, it is not easy to explain events that in military terms were superior to the ordinary.

A group of external and internal circumstances made possible the almost sudden fall of indigenous empires. On the contrary, Spanish domination was more than difficult compared to other peoples with a less developed political organization. This essay covers the events of that time. Is it true that the first to step on those lands were the worst in Spain? Why did the ancient Mexicans believe that the Spaniards had come from heaven? Was the goal of Hernán Cortés conquer Mexico? Those and many other questions are those that arise from this topic.

As well as Huexotzingo, Tepexi, Tehuacán, Coxcatlán and with the Tlaxcaltecas, the Mexica. Knowing that the Tlaxcaltecas were also a warrior town and would dispute the inclusion of battles with the Mexica, they would not have problems defeating strangers, the surprise was that they could not beat them or kill a single man, so they gave up and joinedThey to strengthen their military power.

Cortés’ main objective was always to conquer what Mexico-Tenochtitlán was.

Cortés arrives at the Great Tenochtitlán for what is known as ‘Paso de Cortés’ guided by the natives who showed the way to the big city, where Moctezuma, the supreme lord of the ‘Triple Alliance’, when he tried to move the Spaniards awayWith spells, blocking the roads and passing to Tenochtitlan, with trunks, thorns and river currents, they could not avoid their arrival at the center of 4. Mexico, and had no choice but to receive them with kindness and gifts to calm their anger and leave as soon as possible with gifts and offerings. In part, Moctezuma was very superstitious and thought that Cortés was the arrival of Quetzalcóatl (since Cortés arrived from the east and his God had retired from the east and contributed even more to the belief that it was his god Quetzalcóatl), so he doesn’tHe took letters. In the matter against Spanish attacks.

When it seemed that Cortés had won in his conquest, he noticed that Pánfilo de Narváez arrived with an army to be against Cortés due to betrayal problems, when he learned that he had taken a large number of soldiers from the palaces where they were staying to goTo fight Cempoal, and leave the city of Tenochtitlan in the care of Captain Pedro de Alvarado, which was a terrible error since it confuses a ceremonial act that was held in honor of Huitzilopochtli in the Templo Mayor, then the Spaniards responded with a greatMatanza that would cause a rebellion against him, the Mexicans decide to act before this event since their king did nothing to stop them, they despised him, they called him a coward and traitor.

Cortés asks Moctezuma to stop his army, from above, but began to throw stones, arrows, and according to a stone it is how he (Hueytlatoani) died, at the hands of his people, others say he died by hand. Of the Spaniards, since the emperor was not useful to appease his people, they decided to kill him and throw his body into the street, but who says that it really was what happened ?, Is it true why they killed him? And who were the ones who killed him? In his position is Cuitláhuac, who was the one who was against the Spaniards, managed to take them out at the time on July 1, 1520, Cortés and his men had to escape, the aforementioned ‘sad night’, while the Spaniards fled, the MexicansThey were still chasing, they wanted to finish them once and for all together with the Tlaxcaltecas who were on the side of the Spaniards.

It was a victory for the Mexican people but they still did not know, they began to rebuild their homes, burn their dead, make their sacrifices to their gods, Xipe, 5. . At the end of the battle for the expulsion of the Spaniards, a new enemy wandered through the streets of the city of the Mexicics, they called it ‘Cocoliztli’, which means itching, and began a new killing, but they could not use their oxidal weapons. , arrows and arches, to stop it like smallpox and other diseases that the Spaniards had brought with them, this disease had taken the life of their King Cuitláhuac.

At the end of the battle for the expulsion of the Spaniards, a new enemy wandered through the streets of the city of the Mexicics, they called it ‘Cocoliztli’, which means itching, and began a new killing, but they could not use their oxidal weapons. , arrows and arches, to stop it like smallpox and other diseases that the Spaniards had brought with them, this disease had taken the life of their King Cuitláhuac.

After this essay, we have realized that it was true that the first to step on these lands were the worst of Spain, since they were thieves and bad people.