ANTH 1145 1st Edition Lecture 25Conquest Continued…- Cortés makes alliance with Tlaxcalao They gave noble women to the “white chicimecs” to marry as normal Mesoamerican protocol- Spaniards and Tlaxcala army attacked Cholula to test the tlaxcalans skillso They defeated this kingdom- They reach Iztapalapa and demand to see moctezuma and he let them in to Tenochtitlan on Iztapalapa wayo Nov. 8, 1519- They kidnapped moctezumao Kept him hostage and manipulated the empire- They stole gold from the petlacalco (imperial storehouse) and melted it into bars- For 8 months they stayed in control of both the empire and the emperor- Nanaez sent by the Governor of Cuba leads another expedition in order to arrest Cortés for betraying Cuba- Cortés hears about this and left someone else in charge so he could go into combao He never waited for people to come to him- While he was gone the Aztecs prepared festival of toxcatlo Spaniards attacked and killed participants because the large group of them made them suspicious Killed many nobles and leaders of army This is known as “The massacre of the main temple”- They grow fed up with the Spanish and their allies so they attacko They trap them in one of the palaceso Cortés returns to this- Once in the city there was no way out if they got rid of the bridges- Moctezuma became useless to both the Aztec people and the Spanisho His body was recovered and cremated without proper funeral rituals- Cortés decides to abandon Tenochtitlan one night and escape to Tlaxcalao They were discovered and alarm raised to all warriors in cityo A hundred Spanish soldiers were killed while thousands of Tlaxcaltecas were killed This is referred to as “the night of sorrows” - They escaped July 1, 1520- Cortés returned to TlaxcalaThese 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.- Aztecs try to rebuiold with a new tlatoanio Small pox breaks outo Kill new tlatoani Elect a new