Author Question: What enabled the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs? What will be an ideal response? (Read 79 times)

khang · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Unlike the Greeks, the Hebrews were not philosophers. This means they were concerned with all the following except

a. God's will, not human intellect.
b. abstract thought.
c. the feelings of the heart, not the power of the mind.
d. righteous behavior.
e. God and the creation of everything.

Question 2

What enabled the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs?

What will be an ideal response?

amy.lauersdorf90 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 12, 2019

Answer 1

b

Answer 2

ANSWER: Students should focus on numerous factors. The Aztecs were ill due to a smallpox epidemic.
The Spanish weapons were unfamiliar to the Aztecs, and this gave the Spanish a psychological advantage. The differing concepts of warfare were demonstrated by Aztec ritual warfare versus European total war which emphasized annihilation of an enemy. The Spanish were able to build alliances with local Mexican-Indian tribes who resented the Aztecs' power and demand for tribute. These Indian tribes provided local knowledge in the form of geographical and cultural knowledge without which Spanish success would have been impossible.