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Compare And Contrast The Spanish War With The Aztecs

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War, an act partaken by almost every major nation and civilization that has ever existed in the world. War has been the fall of many civilizations, been the cause of millions of deaths and brought the destruction of a nation’s history and culture. Of all the many wars that happened in the world, there has been one war of particular interest that has changed the face of a civilization permanently, and that was the Spanish war with the Aztecs, a war that shaped a culture of an entire race and helped create the current country of Mexico. This war was diversely influenced by many things such as race and gender and served as a reminder of political and social decisions that will serve as a reminder of the actions that should be taken and shows a …show more content…

The Spanish had with them horses made for war, mastiffs, and war hounds (1 Levy) alongside this the Spanish also had superior armor and swords made of metal which compared to Aztec clubs infused with obsidian shards, would easily cut apart enemies while Aztec weaponry would only maim the enemy. Another problem that Aztec faced was that their weaponry was that the clubs would shatter on impact against the armor the Spanish were using making their melee weapons effectively useless. Alongside all the other problems the Aztecs had, they also were fighting, and invisible army, smallpox which devastated the Azteca ranks later on reducing the population of the Aztecs drastically (Rudolf 22). Finally one of the reasons why the Aztecs lost the war was that Montezuma was a deeply religious and believed that the Spanish were a god, due to the coincidental arrival and location of arrival that Spanish took along their looks, this belief is one the reasons that led to the policy of appeasement that Montezuma took as mentioned before. Adding to the numerous reasons is the alliance that the Spanish got with the regions that disliked the Aztec empire who wish to lend a hand to end them (spainishwars.net), all of this led to the loss of the war for the Aztecs and the fall of their

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