Why Did The Spanish Kill The Aztecs

I think that the Spanish weren’t justified in killing Aztecs and they should be punished for crimes against humanity because first, the Spanish were first friendly with the Aztecs because Montezuma thought Cortez was a form of the god Quetzalcoatl. A little while later during the festival of the Spanish decided to kill the people participating in it. The Spanish killed these people so sneakily that one of the Aztec leaders had to tell them about it. This drew out the wrath of the Aztecs who were mad because the Spanish kill their people during and in a sacred time to the Aztecs. The Spanish soon did the exact same thing during the next festival the festival of Toxcatl Huitzilopochtli. “The two Spanish leaders were not in Tenochtitlan when the Toxcatl massacre took place so their version of it is from hearsay not from their observation.”1 So the leaders of the Spanish had no idea that this happened.

The Aztecs were just doing their own thing when the Spanish attacked the festival performers then the Aztecs responded by attacking back at the Spanish many of the Mexica died in this battle. Montezuma then told the other leader to tell the Mexica to not fight against the Spanish because they had better weapons, armor and allies. The Aztecs begged the leaders to let them have their fiesta so the Spanish allowed them to because they wanted to see how the fiesta was performed. I think the real reason was that the Spanish wanted to kill the performer secretly. The Aztecs wanted to impress the Spanish so they did so well that the Spanish just killed the dancers of the fiesta inside of the temple. The Aztecs were doing what their creation myths said to do and that was to sacrifice themselves because the gods sacrificed themselves to create the