Essay On Sundiata

In the book Sundiata and the essay “Second Letter of Fernando Cortes to Emperor Charles V,” both texts tell stories about the great conquerors in the history. In Sundiata, Sundiata and his strong allies defeated Soumaoro, the King of Sosso; he became the leader of the Mali Empire. In “Second Letter of Fernando Cortes to Emperor Charles V,” Cortes is the conqueror of the Empire of Aztec; he allied with some groups of natives to fight with the others. He had powerful weapons and horses. Moreover, Cortes and his men brought smallpox, a serious infectious disease to Aztec. The population in the Aztec city had declined dramatically. This gave the opportunity to Cortes to conquer Aztec easily. In both texts, there are many evidence to show how the

These evidence are both negative and positive. First, the conquest of Sundiata combine countries together and encourage the population growth. This allows the development cycle to flow in a positive way. Second, the war between Sundiata and Soumaoro is an example of negative development cycle. During the war, there was a massacre and the city was destroyed by Sundiata. The Malinke people did not maintain the food and economic cycle; instead they broke it by lessening the supplies of food and population. The last evidence is the disease. Because of the smallpox that spread in the city of Tenochtitlan, Aztec people had no immunity to this type of disease; the Empire’s armies and population were weakened a lot. On the other hand, many of Cortes’s people have immunity; they began to attack the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire had no power to fight with Cortes; this gives Cortes more opportunities to take the city. This infectious disease is an important evidence that demonstrate how Aztec people lost the ability to maintain the development cycle. Therefore, I believe the three evidences best describes the connection of food and economic