https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment ... en-us 2018-03-19 17:06:29 UTC 2018-03-28 16:13:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/267469916/a4f1031c42b3cf93f85a36dd472221ee/download.jpeg GreenRiptide https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244111294 The Aztecs were a powerful tribe. They struck fear into the hearts of their adversaries, and because of their great strength and size they were unconquerable. They had many city-states under their control, and the tribute that they received made them filthy rich. The Aztecs had a powerful capitol, Tenochtitlan, which was filled with people, gold, and temples. Their religion was quite a big art of daily life. They sacrificed humans to appease the sun god, and they were always thirsty for blood. But their religion got them into trouble many times, and this one was no exception. In fact, their religion was the downfall of their own empire! They didn't know that, of course, but if they had, the Aztecs might still be here today... 

]]> 2018-03-20 16:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244111294 GreenRiptide https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244117472 Hernan Cortes and his men had entered the Mexican Coast in 1519. They were looking for treasure, and the Aztec king Montezuma II was afraid. You see, Cortes and his men had arrived on a very special day; the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl's birthday. They believed that the god would come to Earth as a human, and with Cortes' arrival, they thought that he was the god himself! "Montezuma II sent Cortes gifts of gold and chocolate to welcome the Spanish." This, though, only made him more eager to get to Tenochtitlan. As him and his men marched inward, they met with some tribes and made alliances. They made a strong alliance with the Tlaxcalans, who hated the Aztecs for sacrificing their people. They eventually made it to Tenochtitlan, and were welcomed in with gifts. The king did not trust them, though, and eventually a fight broke out and the king was captured.  


]]> 2018-03-20 16:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244117472 GreenRiptide https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244609027 Cortes and his men would go on to destroy the Aztec empire. After the king was captured he was killed. "The Spanish claimed that the king was stoned by his own people, and the Aztecs claimed they he was murdered by the Spanish." The Spanish then destroyed the city of Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs might have recovered, though, if the Spanish hadn't brought with them disease. Smallpox raged across the city, and ended up killing half of the Aztec's  population! "The people had no resistance, and no idea how to treat it" . The Spanish took control of the city after that, and the Aztec empire was no more.

- The Aztecs, http://www.discoveryeducation.com/

- "The Fall of the Aztec Empire", Aztecs and Conquistadors: The Spanish Invasion and the Collapse of the Aztec Empire by Dr. John Pohl, Charles Robinson and Adam Hook ]]> 2018-03-21 16:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244609027 GreenRiptide https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244613032 To sum up, Hernan Cortes and his men were the cause of the conflict that would destroy the Aztec Empire. In 1519, they came to Teotihuacan, and took the empire for themselves. Also, because of the Aztec's religion, Cortes was able to get close to them empire, and eventually, take it over. The Aztecs wouldn't have been able to stop that, though, because they would have had to overthrow their powerful religion. The disease that the Spanish brought with them also helped, for if they had not gotten sick, they probably would have been able to kill Cortes easily.

Their religion was truly the downfall of their empire. "Now this is where things got out of hand: the Aztecs believed that the Spanish were gods and the more specifically, they thought that Cortes was 'the return of the god
Quetzalcoatl" . Had they not though that Cortes was a god, they would have destroyed him, and he would have never got to the city to take them over, and give them disease. The strong religion of the Aztecs was something that they could not leave, and they held on to it so strongly that they gave up their empire for it. 

(Aztec Religion Impacts the Fall of the Empire, 2011)]]> 2018-03-21 16:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244613032 GreenRiptide https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244622786 - The Aztecs: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
- "Aztec Empire Spanish Conquest", http://www.ducksters.com/history/aztec_empire/spanish_conquest.php 
-"The Fall of the Aztec Empire", Aztecs and Conquistadors: The Spanish Invasion and the Collapse of the Aztec Empire by Dr. John Pohl, Charles Robinson and Adam Hook
- "Aztec Religion Impacts the Fall of the Empire", 2011]]> 2018-03-21 16:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/GreenRiptide/CBAassesment/wish/244622786