He decided to lead a small group of men, no more than 600, to Mexico in Central America, where he discovered the Aztec nation. The Aztecs were a strong, large nation with advanced technologies and a powerful military base. During the first battle between the Conquistadors(Cortez and his men) and the Aztecs, the conquistadors lost. They were only able to conquer the nation through giving the Aztecs the disease smallpox, which they were not immune to. He then conquered the nation, taking the goods of Mexico, such as silver, and treating the Aztecs as slaves. The conquistadors did not colonize in the land they conquered, they only took as many goods as possible before moving to the next piece of land. It was only until the the 1570s when they then thought of stopping the military conquests and colonizing in their
He decided to lead a small group of men, no more than 600, to Mexico in Central America, where he discovered the Aztec nation. The Aztecs were a strong, large nation with advanced technologies and a powerful military base. During the first battle between the Conquistadors(Cortez and his men) and the Aztecs, the conquistadors lost. They were only able to conquer the nation through giving the Aztecs the disease smallpox, which they were not immune to. He then conquered the nation, taking the goods of Mexico, such as silver, and treating the Aztecs as slaves. The conquistadors did not colonize in the land they conquered, they only took as many goods as possible before moving to the next piece of land. It was only until the the 1570s when they then thought of stopping the military conquests and colonizing in their