Essay On The Difference Between Canada And Aztecs

Is there any difference between the Aztec and the original inhabitants of Canada? There seems to be a difference with the Indigenous because they had a different way of life than the Aztec. To prove it, let's go back when the Indigenous people of Canada existed and see if there is any difference between their and Aztec experience. Plus, this will be a way to know which had a little easier experience when they existed, the Aztecs or Canada’s Indigenous people. Finally, to see the difference between both, we must know about their past and look at some major events that happened, but we should also check if they had any similarities.

To start off, let’s talk about when the First Nation’s land got conquered by the Europeans, the Europeans tried

to assimilate the First Nations by creating residential schools (took the First Nation’s children and made them convert their religion) and when the Aztecs land got destroyed by the Spanish, their homes, temples, and anything related to their culture, were burnt down. Also, the leftover Aztecs after the war were assimilated and used as slave labourers, though Queen Isabelle said that the Aztecs should be treated fairly before she died because she wants to do good things, so she could go to heaven.

Also, when the Aztecs were in Spain they began to adapt how the Spanish speak and write. After some time the Aztecs people and the Spanish people got married and their kids would be a mix of Aztec and Spanish blood and their child would be called a Mestizos. Something same, like the First Nations because when a First Nation and a European marry their child would be called a Métis. Though, before the land of the First Nations and Aztecs get conquered, this how they met. When the Europeans first meet the First Nations, they had a good trade relationship, but the Europeans were ethnocentric, and after a long time trading the First Nations, the Europeans wanted their land, so a war happened and in the middle of the war the First Nations began to have disease which caused the death of many people and warriors, so in the end they lost and that’s how the Canada’s Indigenous peoples land got taken over. Now, it’s a different, yet sort of the same situation with the Aztec, because when the Spanish or Cortés came onto the land of Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs greet them with gifts and also thought that Cortés were God

Quetzalcoatl, then the Cortés began to live in the palace of Moctezuma, but soon held him captive and then began to influence of the people of Aztec, plus a point in anger the Spanish and Aztecs had a war, but before the war started, the Cortés went to the city-states that the Aztecs conquered for help in the war due the Spanish knew they couldn't win against the Aztec (also the city-states joined allies so they could gain independence), and for months the war went on (when the Spanish backed off for 3 months, the Aztecs began to get smallpox which killed their warriors and people) and after some days the Aztecs gave up and surrendered. Plus, when the Aztecs land got conquered they renamed it New Spain and that’s how the Aztecs lost their land.
Now, both the Aztecs and the First Nations had a similar experience, in my opinion the First Nations had a little easier experience than the Aztec. Plus, both cultures lost their land and had to get assimilated and had to lose some sign of their culture. Also, if the Aztecs and the First Nations had immunity to the disease then they both could survive the war and might have a chance winning the war. In a way