Cortez and Montezuma

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Cortez and Montezuma The author tells us how Hernando Cortez took advantage of Montezuma’s religion and the prophecies with in the religion to destroy and conquer the Aztec Empire. This article is about Mexico the country where I was raised and that attracted my attention to it and because wanted to learn a little more about how the Spaniards were too gruesome and took everything by force like Professor Harriet Joseph told us. I think this would be a better choice than the other articles because it shows us another aspect of the colonization in America; the side where it shows us perfectly the way Spain began exploring America for gold, glory and god. The article’s strengths was that it tell us very well the conflict between the Aztecs and the Spaniards but it lacks of information about the Indians religion and the story of Cortez before he went to Cuba and then to America. The Article was very interesting because you learn about the origins of the land you were raised if you were like me and everything in the article was very clear and not confounding at all. The author omitted a part that I remember reading about that is how the Spaniards burn the feet of Cuahutemoc torturing seeking for information about the gold that they lost in ‘’la noche triste’’. I was very pleased after I read the article it gives so much information that I was forgot from my education in Mexico. I would recommend this article to other students most to students that come from Mexico like me. There is a monument in Mexico City where once was the ‘’arbol de la noche triste’’ or the ‘’ tree of the night of sorrow’’ were Cortez supposedly wept after losing all the gold in the battle of ‘’the night of
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