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The encounter between the Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés and the Aztec emperor Montezuma II on November 8, 1519, is one of the most consequential in history, affecting the welfare, beliefs and culture of millions of people living in the Western hemisphere. But the story has long been told from one side: the Spanish account.
Hace 2 días · Montezuma II, ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. Montezuma became Cortes’s prisoner in Tenochtitlan. The Spanish claimed Montezuma died at the hands of his own people; the Aztecs believed that the Spanish murdered him.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Myth 1: Montezuma Was A Weak, Unsophisticated Leader
- Myth 2: The Aztecs Believed The Spanish Were Gods Prophesied to Return
- Myth 3: Montezuma Surrendered Immediately to The Spanish
- Myth 4: Smallpox Wiped Out The Aztecs
The Aztec Empire that ruled over Central Mexico from 1429 to 1521 was a triple alliance between the Indigenous Nahua city-states of Tetzcoco, Tlacopan and Tenochtitlán. More than 500 small states comprised of an estimated 6 million people lived under the alliance’s rule. Montezuma was named huey tlahtoani, or king, of Tenochtitlán on September 15, ...
If it sounds too good to be true that the Spanish showed up to conquer a powerful empire and were perceived as gods fated to be its overlords, it’s because it is. “[The Aztecs] did not believe that their god Quetzalcóatl walked among them, nor were they impressed by a vision of [Christianity’s Virgin] Mary or one of the saints,” writes Rutgers Univ...
When Cortés sailed to Mexico from Cuba, looking for territory to conquer and riches to plunder in the name of the Spanish crown, he was an outlaw defying orders from Cuban Governor Diego Velasquez, who had canceled his exploratory expedition. “Cortés had gone completely rogue,” says Levy. His letters to King Carlos V needed to justify his disobedie...
Multiple outbreaks of European-borne disease decimated the Aztecs in the decades after 1519. The largest, lasting from 1545 to 1550, killing a reported 90 percent of the population in some areas. A second wave of the mysterious cocoliztli, the Nahua word for pestilence, came in 1576, bringing the estimated death toll to between 7 and 17 million peo...
- Jessica Pearce Rotondi
Montezuma and his Aztec priests, believing the Spanish to be gods or the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy, basically rolled over and handed Tenochtitlán to Cortés. And that's how a Spanish invading force of just a few hundred men conquered an empire of millions and initiated centuries of Spanish colonial rule in the Americas.
10 de jun. de 2021 · As regional depictions of Spanish colonists spark criticism, debate, and occasional removal or replacement – and as the nation and the world come to terms with the violent legacy of European colonization, the names for Cortez and Montezuma County could still outlast the area’s current inhabitants.
- Austin Cope
Cortes on Meeting Moctezuma. From Cortés, Second Letter, 85–89. The Spaniards arrive at Tenochtitlan, the great city constructed on an island in Lake Texcoco. The city is connected to the rest of the land by several causeways.]
10 de oct. de 2013 · Montezuma (aka Moctezuma), or more correctly, Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotzin, meaning 'Angry Like A Lord’, was the last fully independent ruler of the Aztec empire before the civilization's collapse after the Spanish Conquest in the early 16th century CE.