Hernan Cortes was born in 1485 in Spain. At one point in Cortes's life, he attended a university, but eventually dropped out. He dropped out of school due to the fact of the stories being told regarding the New World. He wanted to accomplish similar voyages to those of Christopher Columbus and other voyagers. The Spanish explorer's first voyage was in 1504; he left to an island called Santo Domingo.
Hernan Cortes's Cuba voyage took place during 1519. Cortes's intentions were simple; he simply wanted to take over Tenochitlan in order to get the gold he wanted. Eventually, the Aztecs noticed how greedy Cortes's was and decided not to treat him with anymore goods. Instead, the Aztecs kicked out the Spaniards out of their empire because they were a handful to handle. As stated in chapter one, Montezuma had believed that Hernan Cortes was "the god of Quetzacoatl", which made him think that spoiling him with goods was acceptable.
Even though Cortes got kicked out of the Aztec empire, he did not stop trying to conquer Tenochitlan. In 1521, he attempted once more, but this time he actually succeeded in his conquest. Everything was pretty much destroyed or transformed because Cortes had different plans for Mexico City. Hernan Cortes might have came up with negative outcomes, but also positive ones. He introduced new objects such as religion, laws, crops, animals, etc.
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ReplyDeleteMy perspective is that Hernan Cortes was always in search of glory and power as when he left his studies at a young age to pursue the New World and when he returned to Spain to seek recognition.
ReplyDeleteI believe Hernan Cortes must have been a man who desired power and gold in order to try an take out an empire of 320,000 even though he had a military technology advantage he was clearly out numbered
ReplyDeleteCortes was a manipulative a greedy explorer- the only reason he overtook Tenochitlan was to gain back his power and avoid being arrested.
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DeleteCortes was nothing but greedy. Out of all of the explorers, I believe that all the explorations he did were merely to receive glory from his peers. I believe that he was a strong, yet weak-minded military leader.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Spanish troops were after Hernan Cortes, how was he being "disobedient"? If Spanish troops were after Cortes why would he be appointed governor of New Spain by King Charles I of Spain?
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion Cortes only was looking out for himself, he did not care what he had to do even if it was to lie to the Aztecas and tell them that he was "the god of Quetzacoatl" as Estella said.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Herman Cortes was greedy he seemed to have only want glory and maybe some power other than that his intentions seem malicious
ReplyDeleteWow! Hernan Cortes was a selfish fool that took advantage of the Aztecs and their worship for him as Quetzacoatl and only to seek gold and power.
ReplyDeleteIts astonishing how someone can be so greedy. But then again when people start to gain power they always want more.
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