FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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Spaniards were armed with guns, armor, horses and diseases that helped wipe out the indigenous population
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The Aztec and Inca people joined the Spaniards so they wouldn’t get killed or enslaved
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Spaniards poisoned the Aztec and Inca
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The many gods the Aztec and Inca had, put a curse on them but blessed the Spanish
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Inca people brought the gold and silver, but Atahualpa was executed anyway. The Spanish were able to defeat the Aztec and the Inca not only because they had horses, dogs, guns, and swords, but also because they brought with them germs that made many native Americans sick.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the Spanish conquer the great Aztec and Inca empires? The spanish conquered the great Aztec and Inca empires by bringing diseases to kill most of them off quickly, scaring them with the horses, and using their more advanced superior weapons to kill them.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main view is that the Inca were eventually defeated due to inferior weapons, ‘open battle’ tactics, disease, internal unrest, the bold tactics of the Spanish, and the capture of the Inca’s Emperor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spanish conquistadores commanded by Hernán Cortés allied with local tribes to conquer the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán. Cortés’s army besieged Tenochtitlán for 93 days, and a combination of superior weaponry and a devastating smallpox outbreak enabled the Spanish to conquer the city.