Posted on 08/31/2021 10:09:02 PM PDT by 11th_VA
On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest, people from Mexico’s smallest state Tlaxcala say their ancestors were liberators
When people from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala travel to other parts of the country, they are sometimes insulted as traitors by their compatriots. Tlaxcala is Mexico’s smallest state in size, but it played an outsized role in Mexico’s early history, not least when indigenous Tlaxcalans allied with Hernán Cortés’ tiny band of invaders to bring down the Aztec empire.
Now, as Mexico marks the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán on Friday, the role of the Tlaxcalans in the conquest is being reconsidered. Many historians argue that without the participation of the Tlaxcalans and other indigenous soldiers, Tenochtitlán might never have fallen to the Spanish.
They are also revising the accusation of treachery, arguing that Tlaxcalans and other city states were in fact fighting a war of liberation against the oppressive Mexica (as the Aztecs were known). “It wasn’t 600 to 800 Spaniards who conquered [Tenochtitlán]. It was thousands and thousands of Tlaxcalans, Huejotzingas or other peoples, who were under the Mexica yoke and wanted to liberate themselves,” archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma told Radio Formula.
“Cortés had 30,000 to 40,000 Mesoamericans fighting with him,” said Aurelio López Corral, an archaeologist in Tlaxcala. “He couldn’t have done it on his own.” The conquest is a singular event in Mexican history, seen both as a moment of national trauma and the founding act of the nation – and it remains deeply controversial...
Cortés himself is still a deeply polarizing figure in Mexican history, a rapacious villain who is also the nation’s founding father: his indigenous translator (wife) known as La Malinche gave birth to the first Mexican…
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Alexandia Occasio-Cortés
Don’t let her forget her family history of terror and repression against the indigenous people of Mexico!!!!
Lol!
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Some folks need killin’!
Lol indeed. She is Puerto Rican, not Mexican, and the name Cortes is quite common everywhere in the hispanosphere. Lots of Corteses around. Also plenty of Castros.
The Aztecs were heavily into brutal human sacrifice. He was a hero, and the locals could never have thrown off Aztec tyranny without having him, or they would have.
Apocalypto
Cortez was a hero and the Spanish were like allies rolling into Nazi death camps. And despite revisionism, without the Spanish soldiers, those other Indians had no chance to defeat them.
The butchering Aztecs needed killing.
The 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest and the stopping of the worst human sacrificial system in the world.
Never forget. The Aztecs, Mayans and others practiced human sacrifice to the extreme.
After which the human sacrifices were cooked and eaten, so add Cannibalism to the list.
Today, revisionists are trying to rewrite history making the Aztec religion look “acceptable”.
That is a sore subject with some of my guys.
I have been encouraging them to buy books about the subject, something a few are doing with gusto.
ABout time they started standing up for themself and taking credit for freeing themselves from the Aztec murderers.
As to the Aztecs, when you are in a death-grapple with Inquisition-era Spain, and an objective observer could credibly consider the Spanish to be the “good guys” - there is something seriously wrong with your civilization.
This topic was posted , thanks 11th_VA. BTW, I forgot to ping the Digest list to the weekly Digest topic [blush] linked below.
Let me guess, the Marxists consider the Aztec empire to have been wonderful, and the Indians who sought Spanish help to get out from under Aztec oppression are “traitors” because, Europe bad.
Great, sussicnt movie. Bare bones, no holds barred. Just as good as The Passion.
Showed how bloodthirsty/twisted they were.
I knew a Cortez in high school. He never claimed it.
I’m glad they stopped it.
Dirtbags surround us.....
Let’s say it again:
The 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest and the stopping of the worst human sacrificial system in the world.
Never forget. The Aztecs, Mayans and others practiced human sacrifice to the extreme.
After which the human sacrifices were cooked and eaten, so add Cannibalism to the list.
Today, revisionists are trying to rewrite history making the Aztec religion look “acceptable”.
Given the Aztecs sacrificed and ATE them, I don’t see the problem.
A Montezuma descendant exist and is a member of the Spanish nobility.
https://www.primidi.com/moctezuma_ii/descendants_in_mexico_and_the_spanish_nobility
https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Moctezuma_(Adelsgeschlecht)
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