Hernando Cortez was the Spanish conqueror of Mexico. His conquest began between 1519 and 1521. He became a soldier and was determined to gane fame and fortune through a military career. Cortez had an army of 400 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons. They landed at Vera Cruz where the Aztec people had constructed the magnificent city of Tenochtitlan.
The first reflections that Cortez and the European people had of the Aztecs where that they were a society that needed reform. Cortez believed that they could convert them to Catholic religion. He believed they could be conquered in a civilized manner. He in return made alliance with the chief Montazuma and began trying to minister to them.
As time went on and the Aztecs did not reform Cortez's opinion seemed to change about the people. In his later writings to the king he portrays the Aztec people as being evil and of the devil. He says they are all sodomites and they practice cannibalism. In the art work provided the Aztecs are......
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