HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: La Malinche
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Slippage between a powerful warrior ethos and also some shifting of blame. Silver was talked about most as it was discovered, especially in potisi. Also a lot about gold in the accounts: main mission was to find gold from the point of the spanish crown. Consumption of whatever they saw and brutalization of whatever got in their way. Aztec people described as lambs and passive people: want to remember story as one of one sided cruelty. Greed mismatch between what is happening on the ground and what the. Spanish people want: taking more than they were supposed to take or originally planned, going past what they should do. How was it possible for the spaniards to take control with their limited numbers. Hunger is another factor that wasn"t taken into account: many people are being taken away from their ability to farm, makes them loose their sharpness. Military superiority: indigenous people tricking spanish.
