Fall Of The Aztec Empire Research Paper

The fall of the Aztec Empire

What really caused the fall of the Aztec empire? The Aztec's city was on a lake, which made it hard to infiltrate. The Aztecs were an advanced population. All through the Aztecs had a big city they fell by a myth, smallpox and the modernized artillery of the Spanish army. Let’s see what started this whole idea of this grand empire falling. At first, the Aztecs or pueblo Indians believed in the good god queztazalcóat. Queztazalcóat was believed to have made the world and everyone one it. “ In Central Mexico from 1200 CE he was also considered the patron god of priests and merchants and considered the god of learning, science, agriculture, crafts and the arts.” states Mark Cartwright. One day the good god and the bad god tezcatlipoca were fighting and the good god lost. Everyone joined the bad god’s side saying how he is better than the good god. When the good god was retreating he said that he will return one day and kill them all for following the bad god. That is the myth that all the aztecs knew very well. They even had a certain set date, year and time that they knew when queztalcóat would come and reign terror on them.

Smallpox was brought into the aztec empire when the spanish army’s first attempt to conquer the aztecs. An african slave had the disease and one of Corté’s men contracted the disease right before their voyage to the aztec empire. During the battle between the aztec’s and the spaniards the disease was spread among some of the aztec’s greatest warriors and their army leader. “In 1520, the population was not only low on food but dying of smallpox. 25% of the empire is said to have been lost to the disease alone.” states aztec-history.com. As the website stated the aztec’s were in great turmoil, this disease caused them to loses most of their population. Smallpox isn’t the only reason why the aztec empire, the modernized artillery of spanish