HISB37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Measles, Tlaxcaltec, Smallpox
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Quetzalcoatl got so drunk that he slept with his own sister. He got so ashamed that he left and then he threatened that he would be back. The spanish were the most powerful country in europe at the time: they were never defeated on a european battlefield at the time. What happened in north america (spanish conquest of the aztec empire) was view as a side show because the barbarossa* brothers were fighting in spain. The treaty of tordesillas in 1494 divided the new lands between the spanish and the. As the spanish arrived in the new world, they took over numerous islands before they arrived in mexico. When cortez arrived, he met a local lord who gave him as tribute, a number of women: one of these women was named malintzin (marina was her spanish name) She became the translator between cortez and montezuma.
