In his absence, however, his men had massacred a group of Native Americans gathered to celebrate a religious festival. Desperate and fighting for their lives, the Spaniards fled the city after suffering massive casualties as did their Native American allies , but they killed Montezuma before they left.
It was reasonable for him to assume that the potential benefit of an alliance with the Spaniards was worth the risk, but in the end it was a misjudgment.
Montezuma failed to achieve the outcome he desired, because his empire was overwhelmed by a technologically superior foe bent on conquest and wealth. Groups seeking to discredit the idea that Montezuma made a rational decision to invite the Spanish into Tenochtitlan would use which of the following to support their argument?
I also know that they have told you the walls of my houses are, made of gold, and that the floor mats in my rooms and other things in my household are likewise of gold, and that I was, and claimed to be, a god; and many other things besides.
The houses as you see are of stone and lime and clay. See how they have lied to you? Are you the king? Is it true that you are the king Motecuhzoma? The journey has tired you, but now you have arrived on the earth. You have come to your city, Mexico. You have come here to sit on your throne, to sit under its canopy. I am not walking in my sleep.
I am not seeing you in my dreams. I have seen you at last. And now you have come out of the clouds and mists to sit on your throne again.
You have come back to us; you have come down from the sky. Rest now, and take possession of your royal houses. Welcome to your land, my lords! V: 9th to 16th Centuries, edited by Oliver J. Thatcher, — Milwaukee: University Research Extension Co.
LeonPortilla, Miguel. Charles II was the monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland during much of the latter half of the 17th century, marking the Restoration era. Alexander the Great served as king of Macedonia from to B. During his time of leadership, he united Greece, reestablished the Corinthian League and conquered the Persian Empire.
Nicholas II was the last tsar of Russia under Romanov rule. By winning wars and expanding territories, he established Prussia as a strong military power. When we came near to Mexico, at a place where there where some other small towers, the Great Montezuma descended from his litter, and these other great Caciques supported him beneath a marvellously rich canopy of green feathers, decorated with gold work, silver, pearls, and chalchihuites, which hung from a sort of border.
It was a marvellous sight. The Great Montezuma was magnificently clad, in their fashion, and wore sandals of a kind for which their name is cactli, the soles of which are of gold and the upper parts ornamented with precious stones. And the four other lords who supported him where richly clad also in garments that seemed to have been kept ready for them on the road so that they would accompany their master.
For they had not worn clothes like this when they came out to receive us. There were four other great Caciques who carried the canopy above their heads, and many more lords who walked before the great Montezuma, sweeping the ground on which he was to tread, and laying down cloaks so that his feet should not touch the earth.
Not one of these chieftains dared to look him in the face.
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