The Incas sacrificed a lot like the Aztecs did, they sacrificed textiles, animals, and more. The Inca calendar is not known, weaving and metallurgy built on prior developments. The Incas did not show new technology or anything they just added to the area’s wealth. After a while the Inca Empire had a crisis. The death of their ruler made a fight for the spot.
In early times Aztecs believed in the sacrificial rights. Aztecs believed that a person who was a sacrificial victim was known to be the “divine dead”. Mexicans also believed a way a person lives, that’s the way a person will die. “Tell me how you die and I will tell you who you are” (DeSpelder and Strickland, 2005). Mexicans decorate graves and death is apart of everyday life in the Mexican culture.
The significance of this symbol is that it shows determination, ambition, and strength in the Mexican people. First of all, the symbol of the eagle holding a snake in its mouth on the flag comes from a tale when Aztecs were in control of Mexico. The story goes that when the Aztecs were looking for a place to put their capital Tenochtitlan, which is modern day Mexico City, their god, Huitzilopochtli, told them to look for an eagle eating a snake. Wherever the Aztecs found this image that would be where they would start building their capital. As they were walking the harsh deserts of Mexico, they saw from a distance an eagle with the snake in its mouth, on top of a cactus.
This and many other rights are preserved for Mexicans in these territories as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed by the United States and Mexico which ended the Mexican-American war. Today, I will inform you about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and how it has deeply affected the Mexican population. According to the Journal of the Historical Society 9.1 published in 2009, “The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo “gave away” half the territory of Mexico.” Imagine giving up half of your house to a random stranger who happened to knock on your door. First I will tell you of the conflict that lead to the Mexican-American War. Then I will tell you in depth what the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo protects.
The Spanish forcefully took control of the empire and brutally murdered the emperor (Inca Empire - Google Sites). The Spanish arrived in 1532 on the conquest of Peru led by Francisco Pizarro in the city of Cajamarca and they were probably interested in the Inca empire due to it astonishing high economy (Inca Empire - Google Sites). The Spanish only came with 110 men and 67 horsemen and met with the Sapa Inca Atahualpa who thought that the meeting was peaceful and that the Spanish were showing their respect to him (The Fall of the Inca Empire). However, his belief was proven incorrect very quickly when he got captured for not swearing loyalty to the King of Spain and Pope and throwing the bible on the floor. The Spanish then went on to kill and capture Incan soldiers and Atahualpa probably realised then that the Spanish were after gold and silver and were not there for peace.
This was a major advantage for the Spaniards because it basically implied that the Spanish had control over the Aztecs. The Spaniards exploited the Aztecs and pretended to be interested in their culture through festivities that were held, more specifically, the fiesta of Toxcatl. During this particular activity the Spaniards had suddenly gotten an urge to kill and massacred the people at the festival. It was after this that the Aztec realized that the Spanish were not gods. I believe that this event led to a chain of events that eventually caused the conquering of the Aztecs.
They believed extracting the hearts and chopping the victims head would renew the world. The mutilated bodies were thrown down steps of the pyramid like trash. The Aztecs believed they were closest to the gods. On the other hand, Mayan Indians believed the gods spoke to them through nature and animals. Mayans would pray to the gods before and after something happened.
Sacrifice was an important part of their worship; people either wanted something or thought they were in debt to a god and needed to make one. In Greek, sacrifice was a much more specific thing: it means killing a tame animal and offering part of it to the gods, or to one specific god, while eating the rest of it yourself. Sacrifice usually took place for festivities in the community in order to celebrate the sacrifice and separate it from everyday life. The animal sacrificed would have to be considered
How it affected their people and some of the surrounding people and justification by the Spanish for war against the Aztecs. Secondly, what the Aztecs believed to be the return of the god Quetzalcoatl, the Spanish conquistador, Cortes and his Spanish army. Disease played a huge part in the fall. Small pox brought upon the Spanish spread quickly to the people and no cure for the disease was known therefore leading to many deaths. Lastly, the skillful tactics used by Hernan Cortes that leads to the surrender of the last Aztec emperor.
In the 1500s, the Spanish arrived in the New World with the intent to convert natives to Catholicism, trade, and discover riches. Juan de Onate, one of these explorers, killed thousands of natives in order to gain fame and wealth. The Spanish and Indians also developed the Columbian Exchange; a trade of goods, livestock, and crops, which was beneficial to both sides as it brought new items to both groups. Most of the products that the Spanish gave to the natives brought diseases that the Indians had no immunity to. Cortez even intentionally gave out