The Native American Civilization

What was the founding myth of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)?

Myth creates reality. The god of war was represented as a hummingbird, at the time there was a break between the female peaceful world that shifted to a patriarchal world. The Mexica were told that they need to look for an eagle holding a snake on a cactus next to a lake and that’s where the land would be.

What was the cosmologic (and cosmogony) difference between the Americas’ Indigenous peoples and the Judeo-Christian-Islamic worlds?

-The Europeans would wash once a year around May and they would tend to get married in June

-The Native Americans were clean and would brush their teeth with ash. Hygiene has made a huge impact recently in Western Culture

-Europeans used to throw their excrement through the window and

-The Native Americans were tall and the life expectancy was much higher than Europeans

What were the major causes of the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerican peoples?

The major causes were:

-Diseases were major because of the population's strength and to produce psychological trauma.

-The Europeans had more advanced weapons compared to the Native Americans. The sword was effective in killing Native Americans and the guns had a psychological impact.

Europeans transferred 180,000 tons of silver and 2,000 tons of gold from what is now Latin America. Why did Spain desperately need that much gold from the Americas?

Spain desperately needed gold because Spain had to pay for the wars. They had so many wars because it was an empire. It had to invest in a bureaucratic system and pay for resources. Spain went bankrupt many times.