Pros And Cons Of The Aztecs

When the European conquer the New World many debates born on the Indigenous people. Most of the voyagers didn’t think of the natives as humans, they looked strange and different with their dark skin, long hair and unusual language. Even the thinkers of the colonizers weren’t sure if the Indians - whom they thought are the native people of India – could been taken as normal people. Meanwhile, the Indigenous people had some similar thoughts on their conquers. They wore fancy clothes, had huge ships and advanced armory. In some records which were left by the Aztec ad Mayan people, they view the voyagers as gods, people who were sent to save them. Of course, after a while they realized, they are being conquered and being colonized. It was hard

for them to handle the conversion of Christianity. In Cuba the conquers were about the kill the chief of a tribe, and a priest tried to convince him to baptize before his death, so he could go to heaven. The chief asked the priest “All the Spanish are going to heaven? Because I would rather go to hell then”.
The discovery of America actually had happened forty thousand years ago, when people crossed the Bering Strait on its frozen regions of eastern Asia to the Alaskan coast. Migrated south over slowly and over a long time, and then occupied the entire continent, including Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost corner of the American continent. The European conquests are actually much later to come to the American shores, but they did not know that they stepped on a different continent than they planned to reach.
The Vikings were warriors and famous sailors, with their ships first besieged the shores of England, and also to reach Sicily. Another group conquered by Kyiv and Novgorod. But they were not only targeting the European continent, also were brave enough to sail west across the Atlantic, and reached Iceland and Greenland, which they also took possession of. Around 1000 they landed on Vinland, a further part of America. They were not successful to conquer to set any base, they could have been disturbed by the Indians or were killed by a disease, not a single information supports either of these theories, so this question is still open. Then over hundreds of years nothing happened towards the American continent. The sources of spices from the East, the silk and various luxury goods market were more than enough for the European emperors, so they were not interested in any new.
In 1453, however, a nation appeared in Asia that conquered Constantinople, and presented a serious danger in Europe. The Turkish cut off India from trade so the lucrative market for goods in the east closed. The Europeans wanted to find a new way to India, and going around Africa seemed way too long and far, they came up with a new idea – go around the world. Scientists have claimed that the Earth is actually spherical, so if they started from a point, then traveled around, they would have to return to the starting position. The cartographers used to this, as well as the legends of sailors. Columbus also built on this when he decided to sail west to reach India. The Spanish Court supported his plans, and in 1492 he moored the coast of San Salvador where he met with the Indigenous people, and he was convinced he just met the Indians, from India. Although very little gold was discovered, their ships, stocked with exotic plants and animals, and returned to Spain. Columbus returned in the belief that he went India and not to a different continent.
The Spanish Courtyard was pleased and satisfied by the products and new exotic merchants they brought back, and with that thought the plundering of the new area started immediately. They wouldn’t care about the natives or their lives, although they disturbed their everyday and overturned their future. They were absolutely careless and cruel, and slayed the rebels without mercy. Although very few invaders arrived, they overthrew the Indian empires soon. The Aztec and the Inca societies were well organized, but only used stone tools. The European military technology was due to the use of iron weapons and gunpowder long before the Indians. In addition to firearms, the Indian internal division also added up to the Spanish victory. These centralized empires were also easy to conquer because the subjects were indifferent to who rules over them. Europeans contributed to the victory of spiritual factors. The Indians were frightened of the horses and the big barking dogs the European brought to the new world. The first conquerors were desperate, hungry for adventurers and for gold. For example, the conqueror of the Aztec empire set his own ships on fire, so his soldiers could only think about victory and not to return home.
The colonies were enslaved the Indians. First, they used them as plantation laborers, on the other hand, they were in the gold and silver mines. Due to the hard work, the inhumane treatment, and the European diseases unknown to them decreased the natives to their tenth. Therefore, the first flourishing slave market after the 16th century depleted.
However, not only negative events happened with the Indigenous people. Of course, their lives turned over when the encounters stepped on their land, and took all their rights, material belongings and made them slaves. But after a goof few years, a group of monks sailed to the New World to preach about Christianity. When the preachers arrived to the land of the Indians, they were horrified at the sight of what the explorers left behind and as the colonizing Spanish took possession of the New World, which lead to the decreasing number of Indigenous people.
When the Indians saw that new people were coming to their land, they didn’t want their help. Although, the monks were determined to be on their side, and gave them everything they could, which was the monks’ help and their faith in God. No matter how the Indians protested, the monks were resolute. And actually, after a while the Indians were thankful to the monks, who helped to rebuild their homes, healed them, and taught them many new things. Priests traveling alone or in small groups would ride out to distant Indian villages and preach the gospel for a few days. Language, as always, was a barrier, but usually the curious natives would listen politely to what the priests had to say.
The one advantage that the Indians—especially the Aztecs in Mexico—had over the Spanish was numbers.

There were millions of Aztecs and only a few hundred Spaniards. How was it then that the Spaniards, even with their steel and guns, could overrun them? The answer lies in a number the Spanish had even more of: microbes, which no one counted on. Yes, the encounters destroyed the Indians’ homes and made them slaves, but they also brought in disease and unknown illnesses to the New World. Millions had died, and generations disappeared. 50 years after the Spanish conquest 88% of the Mexican population was destroyed and only up to 200 thousand natives survived the ordeal. Also, the second in the list of causes of death had become the commonplace brutal treatment and poor conditions during slavery, and the third was by war

massacre.
Although the Spanish conquers were guilty of mass murder, did not intend extermination the entire Indian population. The purpose of their expeditions were material – gold, silver, luxurious goods, and on the other hand, to baptize pagans. The way Indigenous people first saw the colonizers changed very fast, and they gave up on the hope that their old Gods returned to them. From heroes they soon turned to villains and made the Indians lives miserable, and as in the sources said “…that they are carried like sheep to the slaughter, and that the Europeans are fond of their flesh; which notion so far prevails with some, as to make them fall into a deep melancholy and despair, and to refuse all sustenance, tho' never so much compelled and even beaten to oblige them to take some nourishment: notwithstanding all which, they will starve to death…” their rights were taken away. Forcing new world views and religion on them, using their lives as products. The Spanish firmly believed they had the right to conquer and colonize the New World to bring Christianity to the Indians. In their minds, saving souls was worth destroying bodies, if need be. They used this argument to justify almost anything they did in the New World, and forced conversion was common.
However, the conquering Europeans also had strange views on the Indigenous peoples. When meeting with the natives and making connection with them, they learn new traits about them. Many were good and fascinating for the Europeans, but they also had horrifying habits. When they saw their eating habits, the encounters prayed to God immediately. Eating human flesh was something they never experienced before, some sorcery they never even thought of.
As Christian people the Spanish wanted to baptize the natives, and wanted to get rid of from their awful habits.

When the colonists set sail for the New World, they knew that they would not only have to find a way to survive in the wild new habitat, but would also have to deal with rival nations that were claiming their own share of the new land. There had been long rivalry between France, England, and the Dutch. They had read the stories of Columbus and his voyages, and heard rumors of the wild and strange native people who were considered primitive. The Spanish had two different experiences with the Indigenous

peoples.
They hard variety of stories about a beautiful new land, which they thought of as paradise, with native, friendly people. But soon enough, they had to realize, that not every Indian was friendly, and not after all the unhuman event they put the natives trough. Indians were often described in very unflattering terms. Among these descriptions were terms like, “Flesh eating primitives,” “Savage, hostile and beastlike,” and “Crafty, loathsome half-men.” These various metaphors could not have inspired much confidence in the people who heard them.
When the Europeans began their settlement of the New World, it was both complicated and exciting by its indigenous inhabitants. The Indigenous peoples alternately became allies and enemies of the newly arrived conquers from Europe. These two totally dissimilar cultures were hurtling towards each other in a clash of cultures that would be the end for one of them – and from history, it is conspicuous which destroyed one society after all. And since not only one nation conquered the New World many views born on the Indigenous Peoples. There were rumors about them, misbelieves, and great stories, but there are some thing everyone has to accept – the natives are people too and no matter how strangely they lived, their past must be respected.