was “supposedly” created: two Aztec gods (Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl) transformed into serpents and attacked the hideous Earth Goddess‚ ripping her in two. The upper half of her body became the ground and the lower half became the heavens. There were two other very significant Aztec “gods” in the story that deeply affected the outcome of planet Earth: Tecuciztecatl and Nanahuatzin. After the two Aztec gods‚ Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl‚ created the Earth‚ the planet was dark and was in great need
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back to Spain. This huge influx of precious metals made European prices skyrocket (inflation). 3. Ponce de Leon – touches and names Florida looking for legendary Fountain of Youth 4. Montezuma – Aztec king‚ thought Cortez might be the god Quetzalcoatl who was due to re-appear the very year. Montezuma welcomed Cortez into Tenochtitlan. 5. Christopher Columbus - discovered the Islands of the West Indies and was convinced he had reached India‚ or at least part of Asia and therefore mistook
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Humi 16 Professor: Leslie Berry Midterm Bella Lee 1. Between 1900 and 1925‚ traditional norms were violated or abandoned in art‚ music‚ and literature. What factors might have brought about this situation? Offer specific examples to illustrate your general statements (think of Picasso‚ Matisse‚ Brancusi‚ and Mondrian). Pablo Picasso‚ who was born in Malaga‚ Spain‚ changed and created new style of painting while moving from a place to another. He went throng his blue period‚ in which he used
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Sun creation was the Jaguar Sun Ocelotl. Its world was ruled by Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror). In the world lived giants. This world was destroyed because Tezcatlipoca’s brother‚ Quetzalcoatl (Plumed Serpent) had the Giants eaten by Jaguars. The Second Sun was the Sun of Air-Ehecatl. Its world was ruled by Quetzalcoatl and was destroyed
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The Sun It’s crazy to think that the big ball of fire that we looked at through a telescope in the beginning of the semester used to be nothing more than a cloud of gas and dust. I mean this is the center of our universe and greatest source of energy we are talking about and it was just basically a bunch of tiny particles floating in space trying to find their place in the universe. It wasn’t till gravity hit that these particles started fusing together. As a result a star was born and began to
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sacrifices. So when the Spanish arrived at the land of Tenochtitlan‚ the Aztecs considered that these Spaniards were exceptional for the human sacrifice. Though the emperor thought contrarily‚ Moctezuma believed that Cortes resembled their god Quetzalcoatl‚ including the magnificent coincidence regarding the arrival of Cortes and the
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When you hear the name of one of the great civilization of all time‚ The Aztecs‚ what comes to mind? Is it their most famous leader‚ Montezuma‚ or the man who defeated and conquered them‚ Hernán Cortés? The Aztec’s‚ a Native American civilization from Mexico‚ attitude toward the invading Spaniards had change through the course of interaction with them. For example‚ the first group of people Montezuma were in awe because they believe that the conquistadores were God sent. As Montezuma sent more and
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Abstract: The Aztec civilization during its peak was the strongest civilization in the western hemisphere. When the Spaniards first set foot in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan‚ they could not believe that a civilization so primitive in their minds could have been so culturally developed and powerful. However‚ before making it to Tenochtitlan‚ they had discovered that all was not well in the Aztec empire. From many native Indians that had tension with the Aztecs‚ they learned of internal
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Factors Causing 2 Many different factors ultimately led to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Many of the factors could be considered luck and it can be mind boggling how the Spanish took on the largest empire of the day with only a handful of soldiers and weapons. The reasons the Spanish were able to control and systematically destroy the Aztecs was because of their alliances with neighboring cultures‚ their advanced weapons‚ their domesticated animals‚ disease‚ and the luckiest part of
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structure of the Spanish-Latin America and the British-North America. When the Spanish conquered Mexico‚ the ruler of Mexico at that time was Moctezuma and Moctezuma received the Spanish peacefully because he believed that Cortes was the God of Quetzalcoatl and in the legends of Aztec‚ it
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