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[https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2250/the-changing-interpretation-of-the-spanish-conques/ by Oxford University Press 3/7/23 WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLPEDIA] | [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2250/the-changing-interpretation-of-the-spanish-conques/ by Oxford University Press 3/7/23 WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLPEDIA] | ||
The fall in 1519 of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica or Aztec Empire, as it was later called, laid the foundation for the Spanish colonial empire on the North American mainland. It was the first time that Europeans had subjugated a highly organized state outside the world they had hitherto known. In the process, they created the basis for the first global colonial empires. | The fall in 1519 of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica or Aztec Empire, as it was later called, laid the foundation for the Spanish colonial empire on the North American mainland. It was the first time that Europeans had subjugated a highly organized state outside the world they had hitherto known. In the process, they created the basis for the first global colonial empires. | ||
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[https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/contact/text7/text7read.htm by National Humanities Center] | |||
Many factors conditioned the ways Europeans responded to Native Americans and the ways Native Americans responded to Europeans. Motivations, expectations, political and social structures, religious beliefs, concepts of civilization, and perceptions of wealth and power all played a role. Perhaps nowhere is the complex mingling of such forces more evident than in Hernan Cortés's encounter with the Mexica (Aztecs). Cortés landed at what is now Veracruz in Mexico on Good Friday, April 22, 1519. | |||
