Who where the Aztecs?
The Aztec people were a group of people who conquered a lot. The Aztecs were from Mexico, they had a dominate force in central Mexico they had developed a organisation with social,political and religious with all this under their power that controlled many cities.
The Aztec language Nahualtl was the most used language in central Mexico. We still till today don't know the exact way the Aztecs got together but what we do know is that they started as a northern tribe and that the tribe was found by the hunter-gatheres. The Aztecs are also know as the Tenochca which comes from there capital city
Tenochtitlan.
The Aztecs saw this eagle just sitting there and they thought of it a sign telling them to build here and so they did they built there settlement there near the south west border. With the Aztecs aggressive and military force they would build a state and later a very powerful empire. In 1428 the Aztecs tried to form alliances with many other tribes and they were successful they formed a alliance with three other tribes to take down there biggest enemies.
Around the 16 hundreds the Aztecs were very powerful they had control over 500 small states, the Aztecs were the most populated state to have lived in Mesoamerica. The Aztecs had such a high social level which made the society better. The Aztecs had a human sacrifice every now and then to the gods, people volunteered to the human sacrifices because they thought that they would die in honer.
La Malinche was the reason others could communicate with others she was a very important person. Cortes later married her.
The Aztec civilisation started around the twelve century CE and they were destroyed around the 1521 CE.
The Spanish Conquistadors
The Spanish had come to Amirca to try and spread there beliefs of cristianity and they also wanted to spread trading. The Spanish had colonised after the Spanish conquistadors. The Natives were referred as Indians because when Christipher Columbus got to "India" and when he got there he was resident towards people and becuase "India" was near the Indian Ocean he called them Indians and was misbelieved to think that America was India.
When the Spanish arrived to the Aztecs normally they would have captured them and sacrificed them but instead they misunderstood why the Spanish were there they thought they were brought there by the god Quetzalcoatl and that God was very important to the Aztecs, his purpose was to show when the end of the world was and he would come and protect the Aztecs from the end of the world that's why they do sacrifices to please the other gods. The Spanish were so lucky to still be living because the Aztecs would have killed them they were looking to change people's believes. The Spanish stayed quiet and planned out the defeat of the Aztecs and they were treated as guests of the emperor.
Cortes was a conquistador aka a explorer he got promoted and wanted to rule the biggest tribes he got sent on a voyage and then heard about the Aztecs he went to the Aztecs it was a 3 month travel. When he got there he got fought back with knowing that he lost Cortes reorganised his troops and went back to the Aztecs wich soon fell after Cortes sieged them for 3 months a new settlement was built after the remains of the Spanish colonists becoming the centre of Spanish America. Cortes's power were limited because he was being supervised with what ever he does and continued to explor Central America. The captain general got to scared that Cortes was becoming to powerful so he told him to come back to the Spanish and they limited his power. Cortes failed to find what ever he was looking for and later found a area/island and called it Canada.
When the Spanish arrived to the Aztecs normally they would have captured them and sacrificed them but instead they misunderstood why the Spanish were there they thought they were brought there by the god Quetzalcoatl and that God was very important to the Aztecs, his purpose was to show when the end of the world was and he would come and protect the Aztecs from the end of the world that's why they do sacrifices to please the other gods. The Spanish were so lucky to still be living because the Aztecs would have killed them they were looking to change people's believes. The Spanish stayed quiet and planned out the defeat of the Aztecs and they were treated as guests of the emperor.
Cortes was a conquistador aka a explorer he got promoted and wanted to rule the biggest tribes he got sent on a voyage and then heard about the Aztecs he went to the Aztecs it was a 3 month travel. When he got there he got fought back with knowing that he lost Cortes reorganised his troops and went back to the Aztecs wich soon fell after Cortes sieged them for 3 months a new settlement was built after the remains of the Spanish colonists becoming the centre of Spanish America. Cortes's power were limited because he was being supervised with what ever he does and continued to explor Central America. The captain general got to scared that Cortes was becoming to powerful so he told him to come back to the Spanish and they limited his power. Cortes failed to find what ever he was looking for and later found a area/island and called it Canada.
Francisco Pizaro conquered Peru and after conquering Peru he helped out a fellow explorer Vasco Nunez Fransisco helped him find the Pacific Ocean. Fransisco was looking for Eldorado becuase Eldorado was made out of gold and Fransisco hunted him down and wanted to take over the gold city everything in Eldorado city was made out of gold so Fransisco wanted it for him self but after years of searching he couldn't find the city and failed his mission. There was fights all over about who conquered Peru and who would be the King and every new conquistador who came to Peru wanted to claim it for himself.