Introduction

Well the research I am assigned is to make a clear comparison between the primary sources and the secondary sources in context to “Conquest of Mexico”. The thesis statement for my research paper is “Spain pursued the conquest of Mexico because of Mexico's vulnerability to colonization and its easy access to trade based on its location”.  After doing research I will learn how the primary sources are relating or contradicting to the secondary sources and also able to understand the history. For this task first primary sources will be discussed following secondary sources and finally the analysis/comparison.

Conquest of Mexico

Primary Sources

Well Primary sources are those sources which are collected from the people directly by interviewing or having discussion about the topic. For this topic “conquest of Mexico” I interviewed Jan de Vos and he told me about Conquest of Mexico that for some reason, in Mexican society (most poorly educated in history), the Conquest was a war of evil against good Indians Spanish, being all in a common battle between heroes and villains. In the "Official Story" not only speaks of "the wicked Spanish came to invade us, until I finally threw them out after 3 centuries of foreign domination", and a very simplistic assessment, it is assumed that Spanish "easily, with their guns and horses, overwhelmed the Indians."

But it was not anything like that, first, we are not "Indians dominated by foreigners", but Mestizos, other descendants of the Indians, but also of the Spanish, and hate to them is, in part, hate ourselves. And the conquest was not easy for the Spanish, and this witness several of the writers of the epic: it cost them injury, have enemies on all sides, to withstand disastrous defeat, overcome fears, overcome your own fear and anxiety and, above all, faithful to his God and the Gospel of Christ, for whose cause they fought, and that without their conviction of having the duty to expand the Faith, had not been released to conquer, with all the odds, " a country that caused them many problems.

Secondary Sources

The book which I referred to read about the “conquest of Mexico” entails all the history of the Mexico City, the first contact with the natives took Cozumal where she saw the Indians offered sacrifices to their idols tearing the heart to slaves or prisoners alive. This horrified the Spanish. Cortés destroyed, then, these idols and put in place crosses and images of the Virgin Mary.

Everybody knows that "the Spanish conquered us" and this tragic certainty define our identity: Cortés and La Malinche, Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma are heroes and villains, perpetrators and victims of our terrible loss.

If we examine carefully the bloody events from 1519 to 1521, however, the answer is not obvious. The army that destroyed Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and took prisoner Cuauhtémoc, it was mostly Spanish, since he was barely a thousand European and African soldiers, including tens of thousands of Indians in Tlaxcala, Chalco, Texcoco, Matlatzinca and many other peoples. For this reason, the August 13, 1521 ...