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Melisa -Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead the other way around?

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Melisa -Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead the other way around?

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The reason why the Europeans motivated to explore was Constantinople being conquered by Sultan Mehmed the second. They started looking for new trade routes and explored new continents.Spanish people were one of those people who had the technology to explore and invent.They had gunpowder and different technology for weapons.They were looking for gold and silver.They wanted to be wealthy.In the other hand the Aztecs already had a civilized society and they were not even aware of the fact that there were other people living at the other side of the world.Native Americans haven't had the technology or the inventions for the weapons that the spaniards had.When the Spanish people came the Aztec's thought that the Spaniards were powerful gods whose arrival had been foretold by Aztec priests.This way the Spaniards were able to conquer Aztecs and benefit from the wealth of the empire.

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead the other way around?

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead the other way around?

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The Spaniards conquered the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around because it would have been very hard for them. the Europeans had much better weapons to fight with and a stronger army. as well as that, there were many European diseases that the Aztecs didn't know how to act around, so it would have been hard for them to survive because of the situation they put themselves in with all the diseases. being more developed than the Aztecs made it hard for them to live there as well as it was different then what they knew. on the other hand, they could bring goods to Europe such as silver and gold.
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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around?

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around?

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The Spaniards conquered the Aztec and Inca Empires instead of the other way around because they were in search of conquest and gold. The Spaniards wanted to venture outside of their land and into the world to conquer other territories and expand their reign. The Spaniards also had the sea technology and the combat weapons that were strong and advanced enough to venture out to enemy lands, and conquer them. The Aztecs did not have knowledge of the seas or boat travel nor the advanced weaponry to fight for the land they wanted to conquer.

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztecs, and Aztecs could not conquer the Spaniards

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztecs, and Aztecs could not conquer the Spaniards

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The Spaniards had the upper hand in the sciences. The technology the Spanish had was more evolved, and more improved than the Aztecs. The Spanish had a larger population and that's why I think that the Spanish wanted to conquer the Aztecs and gather their land, to start gathering more resources. the reason why the Aztecs were not conquering the other countries because they were in a state where they did not have the technology of boats as well as gunpowder weapons. whilst the Aztecs relied on mallets, and handheld weapons, and without boats, they could not go conquer the Spanish. And with the upper hand, the Spanish had become more powerful than the Aztecs, and thats why they conquered them instead.

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead the other way around?

The Europeans like the spaniards had better technology and knowledge way more than the Americans . The native American wouldn't have as many technology as the Spaniards because they lived in a really bad conditions and environment . They also had no big animals like horses, camels and donkeys not like the europeans that had everything animales, waponeds, technology and alot more. The Americans were at their strongest power when the Spaniards attacked them.

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The Spanish got to south and north America before the Aztecs could get to Europe so the Aztecs were defending their land from the Spanish

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The Spanish got to south and north America before the Aztecs could get to Europe so the Aztecs were defending their land from the Spanish

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The Spanish had big boats what could get too far places and more advanced weapons
The Aztecs were unable to sail across the Atlantic

Sam

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One of the Spaniards reason to conquer the Aztec Empire was to bring many goods to Europe, gold, silver. The Spaniard's technology and knowledge of the world were much better and more evolved than the Aztecs, Aztecs would not be able to defeat. The Spaniard's technology and knowledge was so expanded because they have been exploring other regions which gave them new ideas.

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The Spaniards conquered the Aztecs and the Inca Empires(Taj)

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The Spaniards conquered the Aztecs and the Inca Empires(Taj)

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Obviously the Europeans including the Spaniards were way more technologically advanced the native Americans, they had artillery, the had strategy, they had everything above the Native Americans. And I don't think that the Native Americans would have ever become as technologically advanced as the Spaniards or the Europeans, not because they're intellectually inferior but because I think their environment was extremely difficult to deal with. They didn't have big animals like horses, donkeys, camels and without these animals civilizations can't advance through empires quickly or spread news. There were also(if I remember correctly) no cows, no pigs, no chickens? so that made native Americans vulnerable to diseases because. they didn't have any animals to build their diseases with unlike the Europeans who have been living with them for like, I dunno 3000 years? The Native Americans were probably at their strongest at that point in time when the Spaniards attacked.

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I think that it would've been barely possible for Aztecs to conquest Europe, because first of all the Europeans had better weaponry and better army. Second of all in Europe there were diseases that the Aztecs weren't used to, so probably many of them would've died because of the diseases. Third of all I think that the Europeans were more developed than the Aztecs so they had "time" and ideas to even try to conquer the other lands. If the Aztecs would've conquered the Europe the world would've been completely different. People in Europe would've been mostly different race than today. There would be a lot of black people instead of white as today. It's hard to say how the world would look like today, because as I said earlier Aztecs were less developed and what happened is that Europeans mainly developed the countries that they conquered. So probably the world would've been less developed than it is nowadays.

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The Spaniards conquered the Aztecs and Inca Empires, and not the other way around as a result of an advantage in resources and a military upper hand. The advancements in technology allowed the Spaniards to have more gunpower than the Aztecs. The Aztecs used an older generation of weaponry, like obsidian hand-held mallets, while the Spaniards were able to get their hands on weapons that heavily abused gunpowder. The Spanish also had an advantage in health. They had built their natural immunity to diseases like smallpox, which put a large strain on the Aztecs. The Aztecs, after densely spreading smallpox, we're unable to handle the Spaniards' invasion, as well as deal with a newly introduced health risk that may have been lethal. The Spaniard's advantage in technology did not lie only on weaponry, they also had better voyage efficiency. They were able to revolutionize their transportation, which in turn allowed them to take the fight to the Aztecs, instead of waiting to be invaded.

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Jure - Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around?

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Jure - Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around?

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The Spaniards wanted to conquer the Inca Empires and the Aztecs because they had more technological advancements and better military strength. At the time they didn't have enough knowledge that other nations were living across the ocean. When they saw that the Aztecs were weaker the Spainards sent out to battle. They had more to gain or it brought them an opportunity from the Inca empires and then conquer them.  On the other hand, The Aztecs lacked the efficient military and good weaponry which caused the Spaniards to seek out the opportunity for battle and conquest. The Spanish also had superior health standards and already had an immunity to certain diseases. On top of that, the Aztecs weren't in the exploration era and weren't prepared for the Spaniards.

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around? - Markus

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around? - Markus

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the spaniards conquered the aztecs and incas because the spainards had mroe advanced tequinces and general war equipment. they had more advanced technology such as artilary and more advanced stratagies. also the spainards where the ones coming form the middle of nowhere and the spainards had a better idea of where they were located. the spainards had all of this technology because in europ it had more people who could invent things and when thoes places conqured or where conqured this tech became spread faster.

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Hidde - The reason the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs and the Inca Empires and not the other way around was that the Aztecs weren't in the exploration era like the Europeans. As the Europeans went overseas and the Aztec's did not, they were more inland exploring the Americas. Also, the Aztecs were waiting for the Europeans to come to their "world".  

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Hidde - The reason the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs and the Inca Empires and not the other way around was that the Aztecs weren't in the exploration era like the Europeans. As the Europeans went overseas and the Aztec's did not, they were more inland exploring the Americas. Also, the Aztecs were waiting for the Europeans to come to their "world".  

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Why did the Spaniards conquer the Aztec and the Inca Empires, instead of the other way around?

The Spaniards conquered the Aztec and Inca Empires, instead of the other way around because I think they were more army ready and had more experience in fighting. They might have had better technology alongside their skills, such as boats.

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The Spaniards conquered the Aztec and Inca Empires instead of the other way around as a result of their military experience. They were one of the most powerful armies in Europe at the time. The Spanish also benefited from a lot of new weaponry and innovation, such as gunpowder of different metal technologies, which helped them when conquering the Americas. There was a rapid spread of ideas throughout Europe and Asia which meant that the Spanish could benefit from and use these technologies to their advantage.

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Spaniards conquered the aztec and the Inca Empires because of the earlier military experience - they had been at wars for about 700 years before the conquests, having more resources which was possible due to their geographical location which let them be way more effective at effective at farming than incas or aztecs. Farming provided them with r esources such as meat, muscle power, milk, wool, leather- the resources helped the Spanish peole to build a more complex and stronger civilization. Also they had horses, a thing incas didn't even know could be possessed by a human, they had some of the best available weapons in the world . Also thanks to the fact that spaingrads could read, which nor azteks of incas could do, they could read the books written by previous conquestors, which described things they tried at war and worked on the civilisations they had conquered already. Thanks to that spaningrads knew exactly what to try on incas to win their battle.