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Spanish Envision The Aztecs

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The Spanish conquistadors emphasized all the negative aspects of the Aztec culture to justify their means to satisfy their own greed. The Spanish wanted gold and wanted to negatively envision the Aztecs as a whole. The Aztecs ignorance lead to their barbaric ways and the Spanish used this to their advantage. The Spanish taught the Europeans back home to hate and fear the Aztecs for their cruel actions. Contemporary Europeans learned about the Aztecs largely from the frequent reproduction of illustrations of the Aztecs slaughtering their own. They did not understand the meanings of these sacrifices and were just taught of their hatred and ruthlessness. The Europeans impressions of the Aztecs were that they were murderous monsters. The artists

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