01:512:103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Smallpox, Hernando De Soto, Casta
27 Jul 2016
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Spanish atrocities to craft the notorious and persistent black legend : that the. Spanish were uniquely cruel and far more brutal and destructive than other. Europeans in their treatment of the indians (location 1239). When taino natives started dying, the spanish urgently needed more slaves. They learned about wealthy aztec natives and decided to conquest it. Native people helped cort s to fight aztecs but did not realize that the spanish will be more demanding than their previous ruler aztecs (location 1266). Every year aztecs hosted public ritual human sacrifices of captured people, their chests cut open and their still-beating hearts held up to the sun (location 1275). By his death in 1547, cort s ranked as the wealthiest man in spain, thanks to the revenues from his mexican estates. As a new world conqueror, he had enjoyed the most spectacular social mobility of his century (location 1306).
