Aztec/Spain

Your enemy’s enemy is my friend.

Traps

Tribute just wetted their appetite

Food was delivered

This who fasted were venerated.

Celebrants were massacred

What’s the significance of omens to the Mexicas?

One word to describe the difference between p 308 - 313 in the textbook and the primary source we read.

Noche Triste

Gold isn’t buoyant

Another enemy

Triple alliance allies

Final Siege led to defeat

Tenochtitlan vs Tarahumara

Page 317

• How were Quetzalcoatl and Cortez related, in the king’s eyes?
• Scorched earth vs tribute/slaves
• Disease was gods’ will
• Intolerance and the Reconquista
• Religious beliefs stayed hands and urged others to action

P 319

• Monotheism and tolerance
• Divide and conquer
• Greed and conversion - conquistadors’ goals

Page 323

• What does the poetry say about the final days of the Aztecs?

Post Conquest

• New Spain
• Conquistadors given land and titles
• Aztec were slaves
• Ferdinand and Isabella made rules against slave abuse.
• Gold mines made Spain very wealthy.
• Enforce Spanish culture
• 1542 abolished Indian slavery - was ineffective.
• de Las Casas - human rights advocacy
• Mexico a blend of Spanish and Aztec culture to a degree.
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