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re: Hernan Cortez began the liberation of Mexico 500 years ago today...
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:31 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:31 am to RollTide1987
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Hernan Cortez began the liberation of Mexico 500 years ago today...
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Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:32 am to IAmNERD
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Imagine walking and fighting up and down Mexico for 16 years.
We couldn't last a day with the clothes, footwear, and gear they had. No Gore-Tex, Smart Wool socks, or Coleman stove. Not even a flashlight or so much as a match (invented 1827).
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:40 am to RollTide1987
they sent spainish forces to arrest cortez
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:53 am to IAmNERD
Guaranteed way to conquer Mexico. Land at Vera Cruz and march to Mexico City/Tenochtitlan.
This post was edited on 5/26/21 at 7:55 am
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:53 am to Boo Krewe
This is a serious puff piece right here.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:54 am to RollTide1987
quote:You post the best threads.
RollTide1987
But ”liberation” is not the Mexican version of events
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:05 am to RollTide1987
OK, I get it. Spanish good humanitarians for liberating Mexico from Aztecs for land, gold, and power, but we’re bad because English liberated our country from warring and often blood thirsty natives for land, wealth, and power.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:14 am to Wolfhound45
quote:. Liberated Meso-America of 50% of their population between disease, war, and the ensuing famine that followed.
But ”liberation” is not the Mexican version of events
Plus he likely strangled his own wife.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:15 am to Wolfhound45
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But ”liberation” is not the Mexican version of events
Come on man they even provided blankets for them.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:15 am to Mike da Tigah
Aztec and Aztec Autumn by Gary Jennings are really entertaining historical fiction novels about the conquest.
Aztec and Aztec Autumn
Aztec and Aztec Autumn
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:16 am to RollTide1987
It helped that smallpox kind of killed a bunch of Aztecs beforehand or were sick.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:18 am to alajones
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Plus he likely strangled his own wife.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 8:27 am to LB84
Punta Cana us still 90% pure Aztecan blood to this day.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 9:06 am to cgrand
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sounds to me like there was enough blood thirst to go around for everybody
Right? Cortez's native allies would go on to slaughter thousands of women and children.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 9:16 am to RollTide1987
Smallpox is a hell of a weapon
Posted on 5/26/21 at 9:54 am to S
The initial contact with the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan is what is most interesting to me. Montecazuma pretty much welcomed Cortes as a god (there was apparently a legend of a pale skinned god arriving from across the sea). Upon confirmation of the Aztec riches, they murdered the emperor (there is some question as to the circumstances) and left the capital city carrying as much gold as they could, to the point that some of Cortes’s men drowned in the escape carrying more than they could. Since Cortes had burned his ships upon arrival at the Mexican mainland as a sign to his men that there would be no retreat, they really had nowhere to go. They just laid low and let the disease that they’d exposed the natives to ravage the population, then invaded later and conquered them fairly easily.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 10:05 am to Tiger Ryno
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Punta Cana
I wonder how the weather affected Cortes' trip there.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 10:14 am to RollTide1987
I was driving recently from Phoenix to Palm Springs with my camper, and I was remarking to my wife how crazy it must’ve been for the first conquistadors to discover that area. Imagine having been born in a village in Spain and coming to the Americas to find this vast territory. Huge mountains, deserts, etc. It had to truly feel like they were on the moon.
This post was edited on 5/26/21 at 10:38 am
Posted on 5/26/21 at 10:18 am to LSUBanker
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Thank God. Probably wouldve never met my wife. Father is from Mexico.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 10:30 am to mule74
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I was driving recently from Phoenix to Palm Springs with my camper, and I was remarking to my wife how crazy it must’ve been for the first conquistadors to discover that area. Imagine having born in a village in Spain and coming to the Americas ago find this vast territory. Huge mountains, deserts, etc. It had to truly feel like they were on the moon.
And thats not even getting into the wildlife. Imagine coming across the Atlantic ocean to see the crocodiles and alligators inhabiting these swamps. Or the plumage on the different bird species with all of their marvelous colors or all the different snakes that can kill you with ease. Scorpions and tarantulas that can fling their leg hairs at you to irritate your eyes. Yea it really was the New World they came too.
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