Assignment One:
Cortés’s letters are an essential source for understanding the early Spanish presence in Mexico. He wrote five letters from New Spain to the king, in which he recounted, in a simple but detailed style, Spain’s progressive entry into new lands. The second letter describes the province of Culua, with its great cities, especially “Tenustitlan” built on Lake Texcoco. Cortés speaks with great admiration about the Aztec king, about how his people serve him, and about their rites and ceremonies. The letter relates the most noteworthy events concerning the entry into New Spain: the surrender of the chief of Cempoala, the procession towards the capital, the alliance with the Tlaxcaltecas, early contacts with the ambassadors of Moctezuma, and the meeting with the Aztec chief in Tenochtitlán.
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The Puritans wanted to build a society fixed on community and family, one that mirrored their ecclesiastical identity. One major difference in the Pilgrims and Puritans was that the Pilgrims were Puritans who had abandoned local parishes and formed small congregations of their own because the Church of England was not holy enough to meet their standards. They were labeled “Separatists.” Winthrop, author of “Model of Christian Charity” was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was a colony of people who left England in search of trade opportunities in the New World. He was a Puritan, like many of the people among this colony. This group claimed that the Church of England was corrupted by selfish leaders and petty squabbles. In contrast, Puritans envisioned an idealized community in which all citizens would focus their lives on the word of God. The pilgrims on the other hand, they demanded the formation of new, separate church