President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico at the time, started to move the governmental system of Mexico towards a dictatorship. This in conjunction with the annulment of the constitution of 1824 early in the year of 1835 cause compelled large numbers of federalists to revolt. Though Texas was a part of Mexico at the time, many of its residents were used to a federalist government paired with vast amounts of freedoms. One of these freedoms that these residents missed the most was freedom, and the right, to own slaves. The Texians became quite displeased with Mexico’s shift towards centralism and their abolition of slavery in 1831.
The Spaniards also added to the fall of the Aztecs. A weakness was found in the empire, which was that the empire was nothing more than a collection of smaller groups of people who were tied together by one thing and that is membership in this society. An army was created by surrounding nations, and the army completely dismantled the Aztec empire. Eventually Tenochtitlan was infected with small pox, and half the city was wiped out. The army came in, and a man named Cortes seized the city and laid it to ruins.
As Mexico was granted independence in 1821, America took over former Mexican land such as the former republic of Texas 1836-1845. In the Mexican American war of 1846-1848 all areas north of the Mexican boarder was now American land. In 1849 100,000 people went to California because of a Gold rush. Northern and Southern states had differing opinions on the west. In 1861 four proposals dominated the debate what to do with slavery in the new
On November 8th 1519, Don Hernando Cortes and six hundred Spaniards entered the city of Mexico. In Xoloco, Motecuhzoma’s originally thought that these spanish men were prince Quetzalcoatl and other gods. Yet they were far from gods. They were not there to answer all their prayers and hopes but were there to take over the Aztec Capital. On August 13, 1521, the Aztec capital surrendered to Cortes.
The Spanish saw the native neophytes as little more than slaves, who cost nothing to acquire and nothing to maintain. After Mexico’s independence from Spain, Mexico ordered all the missions to be closed. Half of the mission land was to be divided among the mission Indians. Instead, the majority of the missions were given to Californios and Mexican citizens through large land grants. Many of the landowners established cattle ranches, called ranchos.
Maguey cactus juice – given to sacrificial victims. | | Aztecs | Incas | Econmiendas = to entrust. Spanish needed to encourage immigration to the Americas + control newly conquered land. First established in Hispaniola in May 1493. Spanish colonies [conquistadores, minor nobles, notable natives] given land +Natives [max 300].
Foreign invasion of the Spanish conquistadors began in 1441. Bishop Landa was very concerned with tradition of the city and wrote a book, Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, 6 that depicted Yucatan before and after the Spanish conquest. When Hernon Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, landed and more enemies arose, the Aztec civilization collapsed and was taken over within two years. The Mayans however, adapted better to change, thus leading to a longer takeover of their civilization.1 The Mayan civilization was located in central Mexico. The Maya Zone is located to the southeast and lies in the Chichen Itza city, where The Chichen Itza Pyarmid is found (also know as The Castillo).
The movie start with Friar Diego holding the bible and waiting to die. He keep saying he wants to be free. After Friar Diego death, the story begins. It’s start in May 1520, The Temple grounds are covered with bodies slaughtered by the Spanish Armies who arrival in the vast Mexican Empire just after famous massacre of the Aztecs at the Great Temple of Mexico. The only survival is a young Indian scribe named Topiltzin.
As white colonists began to spread their influence across the continent, it was inevitable that they would run into the expanding Spanish empire to the south. The first major conflict was in Texas. The United States won the battle, and as a result, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. In it, Mexico ceded much of its territory in the Southwest to the United States. The transfer was complete in 1853 with the Gadsden Purchase.
From the moment Christopher Columbus set foot on the “New World” now known as the Americas, history was changed forever. As Spanish conquistadors rummaged through the lands in search of wealth, they observed many different cultures; the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas were just a few of the tribal communities that were overtaken in the name of Spain, through the name and benevolence of their Christian God. As in the case of the Aztecs, the Spaniards used the tactic of gaining control of the ruler in order to gain control of the people; the Spaniards were aided by disease, which ended up killing thousands of Indians and weakened thousands more. In the case of the Mayas, the Andean religious culture would not surrender easily to Christianity, which ultimately led to ugly and protracted eradication campaigns by the European church. The conquistadors “truly believed that they were serving God” when they sought to convert the indigenous populations of the Americas; these God-serving military men became exasperated and irate when these civilizations could not and would not perceive the superiority of Christianity, nor the need for salvation of their souls under this unfamiliar monotheistic religion devoid of their beliefs (38).