Anth 1145 1st edition Lecture 24Current LectureThe Conquest of Mexico- This was the best documented event in human historyo Known that it is the conquest of the island and not old Mexico because these are different things- Image of this can be found in codex Florentineo It shows comparison in technologyo Indigenous people said the candlestick was the most useful thing the Spanish brought them  This kind of upset the Spanish- Before Spanish arrived the Aztecs witnessed omens that supposedly warned them that something bad was to comeo 1. Supernovao 2. Burning of temple of Huitzilopochtli Caught on fire on its owno 3. Comet seen (Omen of doom)o 4. La Llorana: the crying woman Earth goddess who went around the streets of mexico at night lamenting the near end of Aztec rule and the death of her childreno 5. Bird with a mirror Moctezuma looked into the bird’s mirror and saw the Spanish comingo 6. 2 headed mano 7. Harbor wave flooded neighborhoods of Tenochtitlan- 1st encounters with the Spanisho 1st Spanish expedition not recorded by natives 1517 by Hernandez de Cordobao Remembered 2nd expedition though Juan de Grijalva in 1518 Along tabasco coast they traded glass beads and European textiles for Mesoamerican products- Glass Beads= new material to Mesoamerica o Taken to Tenochtitlan and moctezuma hear about the Spanish in 1518 He ordered people to then watch for them- Governor of Cuba wanted to organize a 3rd expedition to Mesoamerica o He had to put Hernán Cortés in charge Whom he did not trust but needed to make the expedition possibleThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Hernán was wealthy and could pay for the expedition because he was a successful land owner married to a wealthy wife which gave him prestige and therefore allowed him to organize a fleet- Feb. 1519 Spanish arrive in Veracruzo Calpixque were waiting for him- Spanish got them drunk and scared them with their gunso They went back and described them as very powerful and over exaggerated their might- Cortés makes 1st European settlement in north America o Villa rica de veracruz- Rebelling against governor of cuba he makes 1st spanish municipal government in mexicoo Gov. council (cabildo) appointed him captain of expeditiono Governor of cuba couldn’t do anuthing about it- Marina or Malitzin was Cortés’s translatoro Received her in tabascoo She spoke maya and nahuatlo With Geronimo de Aguilar (Spaniard who was a captive of the mayas)could convey messages between cortés and nahuatl speakers- Led by totnacs to Tlaxcala- They advanced to tenochtitlan april 21st to November 8, 1521- Group of spanish gained alliance with one of the most powerful confederations in