Conquistadors - The fall of the Aztecs Part 4 (Spanish CC) In the decade before the Spanish arrived in Mexico, Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and his people were filled with a sense of foreboding. A series of evil omens had foretold of calamities to come. A fiery comet crossed the sky. The temple of Huitzilopochtli, the god of war, burst into flames. The Lake of Mexico boiled and rose, flooding into houses. A weeping woman passed by in the middle of the night, crying “My children, we must flee far away from this city!” Fishermen discovered a bird that wore a strange mirror in the crown of its head. Montezuma looked into the mirror and saw a distant plain, with people making war against each other and riding on the backs of animals resembling deer. An agitated Montezuma demanded that his soothsayers explain the meaning of these dire signs and was told that they prophesied the destruction of his kingdom. In fact, Montezuma had reason to be fearful - the Spanish had settled in Hispaniola and Cuba and were making their way toward his empire. The Spanish had made several expeditions to the nearby Yucatan in 1517 and had returned with wonderous tales of a high-cultured Mayan civilization and gold riches. The news of these discoveries made an electrifying impression on the Spanish colonists in Cuba. Among these was Hernán Cortés, Chief Magistrate of Santiago. The Spanish governor of Cuba, Diego de Velásquez, told Cortés that he would provide two or three ships if Cortés would find …
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al fin de cuentas me dan pena los pobres incas. Pero yo creo que no hubiera sido diferente si los hubieran invadido otro pueblo: todas las conquistas tienen 2 caras, los que ganan y los que pierden (y son estos últimos los que sufren más que nadie).
Cortes, as christian authority proceeds to put Moztezuma under arrest for idolatry
Los mexicanos, descendientes de dos enormes imperios, el de los aztecas y el español.
No pueden pedir más gloria.
Viva México
“For the Christians, God gave his blood to redeem mankind. For the Aztecs, makind must give its blood to redeem the gods.”
BEST. LINE. EVER.
I love this history. Hispanic history in my opinion is second best to oriental history. I love it.
Honor y Gloria compañero
I agree with Exequian for the “BEST. LINE. EVER”
dood whats your problem wy do you think we wer so evil we danced and gave earth joy and happenes and now you talk about the devil jesus dood whats your problem we only belived in one god thats the creatore of joy not some dood telling us and scaring us if we dont give him our souls wher going to hell fuck that god is my judge and thats it my lord for eva
cortez wuz a pussy no wunder pussy gangsters buy that name brand because it symbelixes the act of cowards such as holding a defensles man captive or over powering the week and not the strong pussys
i think we wher beening sneeky and wernt sacrafising enogh people so we lost as was told we wold if we didnt
Hey ape boy, stfu!
No mamen pinches gringos de mierda aprendan nahuatl y luego dicen mamadas en el nahuatl no existe el termino dios es mas en el nombre de huitzilopochtli no existe esa palabra traducido seria colibri zurdo nada que ver con guerra ni con dios teotl significa energia interna y guerra es yaoyotl(teotl se parace a theus del griego,deus del latin ydios del español)por eso los mugrosos lo tradujeron como dios por la similitud que hay entonces si quisieran decir dios de guerra seria yaoyoteotl.
estoy contigo,mexico me encanta,viva España y Mexico
wtf this fool didn’t even mention the massacre that the Spaniards committed when the Aztecs were celebrating the party of uitzilopochtli in the place called teoitualco. GAY
I hope Cortez is burning in hell
that mural is beautiful….esa pintura esta hermosa. dos differentes mundos…two different worlds.
Orale pues parece que si sabes mucho de Nauhalt pero ahora siempre se le conoce a hutzilopochtli como del dios de la guerra pero aparte hutzilopochtli
TIENEN QUE AUTORIZAR MI OPINION ? NO PUEDE SER
What’s the b/w film called?
thats bull, many historians agree that the aztecs knew that cortez was not a god
@tlacaelelx3 its in part 3
@ivanahumpalot420–What about Egypt and Rome? Come now.
@rhcmlc–Don’t worry. He is.
@18cuahutemoc– Si. Pinches gringos!