HILA 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Huayna Capac, Marca Hispanica, Smallpox
28 Sep 2016
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Moctezuma agrees to pay tribute to spanish crown (differing ideas of conquest and warfare: understood that if he destroyed cortes, it wouldn"t necessarily mean the end of spanish conquest. Informants told him what spanish have been doing in the caribbean since 1492. Trying to preserve his social, political, and cultural peace in his kingdom as he understood that the spanish were going to come regardless: perhaps this negotiation of a deal may have been montezuma"s best change. Cortes defeats tlaxcalans and enlists them as allies. Spanish march into tenochtitl n invited by moctezuma. Con ict between vel squez and cort s (1520: after narva z lands, he begins to exchange messages with moctezuma. Understands exactly what is going on that narva z is coming to arrest cort s: wants to use narva z and his 900 men as a way to tell cort s to fuck off and defeat cort s.
