The Aztecs never vanquished the American southwest

history channel documentary 2015 The Aztecs never vanquished the American southwest.That land stayed in the hands of the Pueblo Indians, and was never really possessed by Mexico in any of its incarnations.Then came Cortez. He had at most 600 men, 16 guns, and 18 stallions, yet he strolled directly into the legend of Quetzalcoatl's arrival. This was reason enough for the distant Toltec tribes to join with Cortez, swelling his armed force by thousands, with expectations of toppling their detested Aztec aces finally. The talk that Quetzalcoatl had returned, and was exceptionally disappointed, went before Cortez and tossed the Aztec rulers into a religious frenzy.

We as a whole know whatever is left of the story. Cortez vanquished the Aztecs, killed their rulers, stole their fortune, and crushed their general public. The Spanish clerics he'd carried with him pulverized the greatest number of Aztec sanctuaries as they could and smoldered a large portion of the Aztec books, essentially in light of the fact that they found that those sanctuaries facilitated mass human penances, and those books - a huge number of them - were composed on human skin. The Spanish conquistadors likewise, unknowingly, spread smallpox all through Mexico and along these lines executed another third of the populace. This is incidentally parallel to what the Aztecs had done to the Toltecs.