The conquest of Mexico is the great event where the Mexican village was subjugated for the Spanish to get holds his territory and his population. Hernán Cortes lands on Cozumel's coasts in February 1519, this way to arrive later to Yucatan and continuing his way to Veracruz to continue coming to the Aztec territory where Moctezuma was the king, Later he was killed by the Spanish, and Cuitlahuac ascended to the throne who dies rapidly as a result of smallpox , that had been introduced to the New World by the Spanish, and then Cuauhtémoc ascended to the throne, he was held captive by Cortés in search of the Mexica's gold , this mean the fall of Tenochtitlan's great empire in hands of the Spanish and it was the guideline of beginning the Colonial Period .
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The conquest of Mexico is the great event where the Mexican people are subdued by the Spaniards to take over their territory and population. Hernan Cortes disembarked on the coasts of Cozumel in January 1519 to later arrive in Yucatan and from there continue his journey to Veracruz to continue on to Aztec territory where he was received by Moctezuma who died at the hands of the Spaniards, He is succeeded on the throne by Cuitláhuac who dies quickly as a result of smallpox that was introduced to the new world by the Spaniards and later Cuauhtémoc is taken prisoner by the Spaniards in order to claim the treasures, this meant the fall of the great empire of Tenochtitlán in the hands of the Spaniards and was the beginning of the period known as the colony.
Key words: Conquest, Mexico, Spaniards, Hernan Cortes, February, Yucatan, Veracruz, Montezuma, Cuitlahuac, smallpox, new world, Cuauhtemoc, Tenochtitlan, Colonial.
The catastrophe that guided the Spaniards to the limit has made it impossible for us to know in proportion the way in which the conquest of Mexico took place, like the way our ancestors lived, since we only know about that time through the chronicles constructed by the Spaniards themselves, which are mostly exaggerated.
The conquest of Mexico refers to the subjugation of the Aztec Empire by the Spaniards under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortes in the name of the Spanish Crown, represented at that time by King Charles V.
The first antecedent of the conquest of Mexico is the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492.
After Columbus' first expedition to the American continent, the population settled in Haiti.
On February 10, 1519, while Diego Velasquez was governor of Cuba, Hernan Cortes disobeyed the governor to speed up his departure from Cuba and make an expedition to what would become New Spain. He departs with 11 ships and more than 600 men.
The Spaniards reach the coasts of Mexico in February 1519. The first place they reach is the coasts of the island of Cozumel.
The Spaniards advance and arrive in Yucatan where they meet the Mayas and defeat them and give gifts to Hernan Cortes such as 20 women, among them Malinche, a connoisseur of Mayan and Nahuatl.
The Spaniards continued their journey and reached the coast of Veracruz where they founded the city of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz.
The Spaniards arrived at Cempoala, a large commercial center inhabited by the Totonacs, who gave Hernán Cortes a detailed description of the great Tenochtitlán.
On his way to Tenochtitlán, Hernán Cortés meets the Tlaxcaltecs and they join him against the Aztecs, promising to take away all the tributes they paid to the great Mexica empire.
The Spaniards arrived in the great Tenochtitlán on November 8, 1519 and the great emperor Moctezuma received Cortés with great honors and lodged him in the palace of Axayácatl and later took Moctezuma hostage.
The siege of the great Tenochtitlán begins and lasts about 3 years where the Spaniards have a great defeat: La Noche Triste, July 1, 1520, Cortés sits under a tree and cries for his defeat.
When Moctezuma died, Cuitláhuac came to power but he could do little for his empire since he soon died of smallpox and the young Cuauhtémoc succeeded him on the throne. On August 13, 1521 Cuauhtémoc was captured, which meant the definitive fall of Tenochtitlán in the hands of the Spaniards.
From this date begins the period of Mexico's history known as the colony, which lasted three centuries from 1521 to 1821.
The conquest of Mexico is essentially the one that establishes the primary aspects of locality, economy, culture and science. What we possess instead is the replacement of a culture by the western one.
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