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Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

Timeline

1528

1515

1519

1521

1430

1517

Spanish Conquest

In this presentation we are going to see the most important points of the Spanish Conquest which are:

  • 1430-(The Aztec Empire is Formed)
  • 1515-(Hernán Cortes realizes the problems in the Aztec empire)
  • 1517-(Hernán Cortes aganins Tenochtitlan)
  • 1519-(Problems in the Aztec Empire)
  • 1521-(Defeat of the Aztec Empire)
  • 1528-(Moctezuma after the fall of Aztec empire)

Aztec Empire

After War Tepanec for control of the area. Tenochtitlan became the most powerful member of the alliance, and the capital city of the Aztec Empire, and its ruler became the "high king" of the entire empire in 1430

The taxes

Cortes joins the enemy

The Aztec government was making the states they took over, pay more and more money in tributes. Cortes realizing this, joined with two rebels states (Tlaxcaltecas and Totonacas) that they didn't like these taxes

Spanish conquistadors

Cortes arrives in Tenochtitlan

When the Spanish conquistadors, led by Cortés, arrived in Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Motecuhzoma II, the Aztecs' ruler, invited the Spanish into Tenochtitlan, and things were friendly.

Even when the Spanish made Motecuhzoma II a prisoner, the Aztecs stayed friendly.

Causes that influenced is fall

Problems in the Aztec empire

  • Nobles were allowed to marry commoners, and their children automatically belonged to the nobility, which meant that there were fewer and fewer commoners to do the day-to-day work of the Empire. The commoners were in charge of cultivating food, this meant that there was a shortage of food.
  • The Aztecs maintained control by creating terror. When the conquerors arrived in Tenochtitlan, they mentioned that the Aztecs used to perform their ceremonies publicly. The Aztecs invited leaders and conquerors to their ceremonies, who mentioned that they sacrificed some twenty thousand people a year, with an average of 55 people a day.
  • The Aztec government made the states and the people who drank, pay more money in tributes (taxes)
  • The conquerors brought with them smallpox, which wiped out large numbers of Aztecs.

Cuauhtémoc surrenders

Cuauhtémoc surrenders

Ten months after the rebellion of the Aztecs and the Spanish took refuge in Tlaxcala, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlán with a larger multiracial army. Upon arrival, they attacked Tenochtitltán, taking away food and supplies. After 91 days, with a sick and ailing population, Cuauhtémoc surrendered to the Spanish on August 13, 1521. There the Aztec Empire ended and colonization began.

Religion

Motecuhzoma II thought Hernán Cortés was the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Aztec legends said that Quetzalcoatl would return as a man, and Cortés had arrived on Quetzalcoatl's birthday.

Moctezuma's reasons

“ O our Lord, thou hast suffered fatigue [and] weariness. Thou hast come to arrive on earth. Thou hast come to govern thy city of Mexico; thou hast come to descend upon thy mat, upon thy seat [throne], which for a moment I have watched for thee, which I have guarded for thee. ”

Motecuhzoma II greeted Cortés, he gave an abdication speech, giving up the Aztec throne to "Quetzalcoatl-Cortés":

Equipment and references

Bibliographic references:

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire Facts for Kids. (2020). Kiddle. https://kids.kiddle.co/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire

References

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Team members

  • Castillo Pérez Ariadna Guadalupe
  • Marin Landa Julieta Montserrat
  • Olguín Montiel Melisa
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