Essay On La Conquista

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“Freedom” Is the right that every single person and country should have, but over the past years greed and power has limited the freedom of society. A great example will be La Conquista which is the spanish colonization of Latin America of 1519. The conquista only destroy Tenochtitlan by governing and making indigenous adapt to a new race, culture, traditions, religion, and beliefs. In 1519 Hernan Cortes a spanish Hidalgo arrived to to Tenochtitlan in search of power and leadership. Cortes and his people believe that Indigenous people needed to be saved to make them go the right path, because they were evil people. Once they arrived they begin by “destroying all the religious symbols and temples and replace them with churches and christian symbols” (Cobarruvias). The spanish were armed and with an outnumber army. They did not only destroy many of their monuments but as well all the evidence such as manuscripts and idols. Cortes remove them from their property to give it away to his soldiers with the responsibilities of making them catholic and slave them to work for them. Now all the soldiers were the wealthy people on town. Cortez wanted power and governorship to obtain the respect of his people back in Spain since he was the middle child of three. In …show more content…

The New immigrant that arrived were people of color. Do to all the rapes of the women Mestizos started to exist a child from a spanish men and mexican women. At this time racism become a bigger issue called “The Caste System” which stated what social status the person belong based on race and color of skin...The more spanish blood the person has more rights “(cobarruvias).At this point Indigenous people had no other option but to give themselves up and to adapt to the new rules of the Spaniards. The unity of many were destroyed since "The indian mestizos reacted in variety of ways to which the Spaniards shaped conditions on their own benefit" (Ch.4,

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