Discussion Post: Aztec Empire
After reading Chapter 6 and the material at the websites, and viewing the videos, please make a 250 words post that answers the following questions about the primary sources:
Many of the accounts of the Aztecs that we have were not written by them. They were written by the Spanish who conquered the Aztec empire (including Moctezuma's greeting to Cortés). What do the Spanish (Cortés and Díaz) find noteworthy about the Aztecs and their empire? How might their background and social position have influenced what they saw and described? Did they see everything they described, or were things described to them by others? Did they think the culture that they were writing about was lesser than their own or equal to it? How does the Aztec explanation of the Spanish conquest of Mexico reinforce yet differ from the Spaniards' versions? What do you think explains those differences?
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.
Reference
• Kevin Reilly, The Human Journey, Chapter 6
• Website: The Aztec Empire.
• Website: Ancient Aztec Government.
• Website: Aztec Culture.
• Website: Aztec Social Classes.
• Website: The Fall of the Aztec Empire.
• Website: The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, excerpts.
• Website: Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V, 1520.
• Website: Moctezuma's Greeting to Hernan Cortes (from Cortés' letter to the King of Spain).
• Website: Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico.