La Otra Conquista Analysis

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During the week, we watched the movie, La Otra Conquista. The movie is historically based on the journey of Hernando Cortes and his conquistadors to the New World. On the journey, the conquistadors traveled to Mexico to conquer the Aztec empire. Topiltzin and Dona Isabel were children of the great emperor of the Aztec Empire, Moctezuma. His half-sister, Dona Isabel was in a relationship with Hernando Cortes. In the beginning of movie, the scene was the aftermath of a war. Majority of the Aztecs died including the emperor. The conquistadors were astonished by the ritual, the Aztecs performed. In the ritual, the Aztecs sacrificed Topiltzin’s mother to the sun goddess by removing her organs. The conquistadors immediately implemented the Aztecs

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