The civilisation had commenced in 1325 AD, and this society feared the Spanish military devices because of their higher damage and significance than the wooden devices the Aztecs had equipped. Tenochtitlan was invaded by the leader of the Spanish conquistadors, Hernan Cortez, and arrived with approximately 500 conquistadors in 1519 AD. This invasion took 547 days to end the mighty, wealthy, and compacted civilisation. Some key motives for the conquest of the Aztecs were gold, glory, and God. The Spanish were only interested in converting the Indigenous people of the New World by forcibly ordering Indigenous people to other regions while also enslaving them and taking them back to Old Mexico, where they had the authority of God. The Spanish …show more content…
The similarities and differences between Aztec and Spanish weaponry and how it helped them defeat the Aztec Empire. According to Figure 3, it can be seen from the Codex’s 12th book that the Spanish conquistadors had horses, metal spears, steel swords, metal ‘bulletproof’ shields, and steel armour that covered them from head to toe, whereas the Aztec tribes only had weapons that were made from wood. It can also be seen that they had close to zero armour as the only armour they had was head protection. There were no animals to assist in the attempt to defeat the Spanish. The information that can be implied from the explicit information is that Spaniards had superior weapons and protection, compared to the Aztec tribes. This is because of the lack of steel, metal, and gunpowder; they also lacked in the armour category for the harsh weapons the Spanish had. The Spanish also had more dangerous materials; however, the Aztecs only had wooden weapons and shields. Figure 4, which is from a secondary source, this source explicitly states that they had steel swords, muskets, cannons, pikes, crossbows, dogs, and horses. They even used metal armour and