Conquist Of Mexico By Hernan Cortez

Term Paper Title	Conquist Of Mexico By Hernan Cortez
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conquist of Mexico by Hernan Cortez

A child rebels against his father, because he thinks that his father's rules
are unjust; he thinks that if he rebels then maybe his father will change those
rules. Rebellion may manifest itself itself in many ways: the child may refusr
to eat, do his homework or even throw a temper tanturium. Some historians have
argued that the above situtation was very similar to the latin amerian uprising
against the spainish crown. Although spain thought of the colonies as little
sons, in need protection from revolutionary ideas. However, the sourceof
rebellious grievances differed greatly in each region of the new empire. The
origins and manifsetatins of these grivences can be traced back to the
pre-Columbian rulers in each region: the Aztecs, in what is now Mexico and
Central America; the Incas in the Andean region of South America. These pre-
Columbian rulers lefy an imprint or lack there of on the people of their region;
thus, shaping the indigenous society. Societies that would later rise up against
the outside authority; either trying to replace it with the old Inca regeim, or
they considerd it weak and needed a new central governement.

Frist let us look at the conquist of Mexico by Hernan Cortez. Mexico and the
Yucatan penisular was ruled by the Aztecs. The Aztecs rule was compromised by
the arrival of the spainish. Cortez and his men were seen as Gods, who returned
to save the poor from the tyrannical hands if the Aztecs. The pre-columbina
civilaization was centralized around the war god, Huitzilapochli, which meant
they were constanly at war and the central system was in unrest. The Aztecs
forced upon the people of Mexico, unfair trading practice, forced taxation and
more importantly human scacrafice. They expaned their territories not only
ursurp more and land from the people, but also to scarfice hundreds of people to
their god. This relentess effort to expand their empire was viewed by the people
of Mexico as barbaric and tyrannical. So when Cortez came riding into Mexico on
white horses, promising to overthrow the tyrananicals overlords. The gente
corriente cheered and reviered the Spainish as their saviors, and embraced the
Spainish rule. However, this was not the case in Peru with the Incas.

The Andean rulers although expaned their empire by military means, they were
more widely accepted amoung the people of Peru. The Incas has a very organized
structure of power, that appealed to the people at every level. Unlike their
Mexican counterparts, the Incas did not iradicate the local governmenrt. The
people were allowed to continue their ouwn religious practiced. The social
pymrid now consisted of the I...

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