Learning Objective 3

Learning Objective 3

As Cortez and his army induldged in the spoils of their battles with the natives of Mexico they also reaped the land of all it's rescores. Though it all started when Crtez and his regime had first met the natives and those natives where the Aztecs. The king Montezuma, had thought at first that Cortez was Quetzalcoatl, the sun god due to his shining armor, Montezuma welcomed Cortez into Tenochtitlan. Cortez, sent to conquer everything and anything he could, took advantege of the Aztecs' ignorance. As he played god he cunivingly took all the gold the Aztecs had to offer. After all the gold was extorted from the people Cortez and his army destroyed  Tenochtitlan and built the Spanish capital Mexico City right on top of the ruins. As the people of Mexico where being driven out many of the native women were kidnapped, sold, raped while their homes were being destroyed and their families being killed. These women gave birth to a new race of people mestizos, a mix of Spanish and Indian blood. Through out the years the Spanish would concure many other places such as Peru and the rest of South America. There is a legand that manybelieved that the Spanish brought nothing but but horrid things such as famin, dieseas, slavery,and death. But they also brought good things as well such as law systems, architecture, language, civilization. This legand is still known today as the Black Legand