1. On his voyage Cortès heard of a magnificent kingdom in the interior. Located in modern-day Veracruz, Cortès received gold from the Aztec emperor, Montezuma II. Word of what Cortès did to the Tabascans spread all the way to the Montezuma II. Cortès’s story of how he lived on the other side of the ocean confirmed an important Aztec myth. About a white-skinned bearded god named Quetzalcoatl that founded the Indian race and then sailed away to the east, promising to rule when he returned. Due to the myth the Aztec emperor didn’t want to see Cortès because of his fear of losing his power. Although this didn’t deter Cortès who would loss everything if he didn’t return without enough gold to pay for his voyage caused Cortès to destroy his ship and kill two of his men that wanted to return home. With no way back there were only two choices the conquest of Montezuma’s empire or death. On August 1519, …show more content…
For the Micmac when ever someone died there was a greet weeping in his wigwam, a dome-shaped hut made by fastening bark over a framework of poles. After the weeping they held a tabagie, a festival, to rejoice in the great gratification the deceased will have in going to see all his ancestors, his relatives and good friends, and in the joy that each of them will have in seeing him, and the great feasts they will make for him. They believed in a heaven after the festival of joy the women went to fetch fine pieces of bark from which they made a kind of bier on which they placed him well enwrapped. Then the corpse was moved and left it about a year until the time when the sun had entirely dried the body then moved to a cemetery. Were his friends and family threw bows, arrows and more into his grave. Denys described the Micmac men as drunks so when the men start to drink the women get all the weapons and children and take them far away and don’t return until the next day. After they return the women would repair their homes and not complain or they would be