Compare And Contrast The Spanish War With The Aztecs

War, an act partaken by almost every major nation and civilization that has ever been around in the world. War has been the fall of many civilizations, the cause of deaths of millions and the destruction of the history of people. 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 made what 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 should or should not have been made and shows a surprising similarity to events taken in the United States.

Before the war actions were taken to prevent the king of the Aztecs Montezuma tries to stop the Spanish forces mainly lead by Hernán Cortés from attacking by using a method of appeasement (Castillo and Carrasco 145). Using appeasement did not work out, and in fact contributed to the reason why the war began and the reason why Montezuma, the leader of the Aztec, was killed by his people. The Spanish upon seeing the wealth given to them allowed them to know that the Aztec civilization contains vast riches for them (Beezley 21). This reason further developed

The native Americans were outgunned by technologically superior opponents and were subjugated by the victors, by racist policies and actions that were committed against them. But there are some differences compared to Azteca war is that while the Aztecs had numerical superiority the Indians did not, another point is the rebellion that allowed the formation of Mexico, the Indians did not get anything near the resemblance of retribution that the Aztecs were allowed to