Five hundred years ago, Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez and his native allies helped put an end to a gruesome regime with one of the greatest underdog victories ever recorded.
The New York Times officially announced its new 1619 Project to “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.”
Constantly now, Americans are called upon to reflect on European villains and indigenous victims. However, the story of European civilization reaching the North American continent did not begin with the first arrival of slave ships at Jamestown in 1619.
Let’s take a brief recess from the 1619 Project to explore another project. Call it the “1519 Project.” A full century before The New York Times’ proposed re-dating of the American founding and 2,200 miles southwest of Jamestown, European contact sparked a native uprising against a gruesome cult of cannibalism and mass murder.
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First hand accounts of history make for the best sources. Anyone wishing to explore this further should read "The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico" by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (original title was"The True History of the Conquest of New Spain").
ReplyDeleteIt answers the singular most important unasked question, How as it possible that only 500 Spanish Conquistadors were able to conquer the largest single empire in recorded Central American history.
The other unaddressed issue in motivation of the Spaniards to make Christian evangelicalism the foundation of their colonization efforts. We all know the little rhyme of "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue." But few also know that in Spain 1492 was also the year that the Spanish finally completed a 700 year long effort to drive the Moors back across the straights of Gibraltar. For them the conquest of the New World was but an extension the righteousness of Christian conversion of the non-Christian.
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the Spanish finally completed a 700 year long effort to drive the Moors back across the straights of Gibraltar.
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The Aztecs were the prime example of the fact that fascism is not just a 20th century European disease. That they are revered in modern Mexico as some great civilization just shows how ignorant people are. Funny how people resent being carried off into slavery and slaughter and will take almost any opportunity to throw it off. Had the rest of the people's of central Mexico succeeded in overthrowing them without the Spanish they would have no doubt returned the favor in spades. Noble savages indeed!
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The Indians went on the killing spree after continual encroachment upon their lands that moved up the river from New Bern. The slaughter occurred over a period of three days, and about 200 settlers were killed. The massacre was a Day of Remembrance in NC for over 100 years, and *reports state that women were killed by having saplings forced into their vaginas. *Shown to me and my half-brother John Koonce in 1988 by an elderly lady who was a librarian in New Bern.
I'm reminded of a recent cartoon. Europeans landing on the shores of the new world ask the natives, "Why are you so backwards?" The native replies "I don't know but whatever the reason it will be your fault."
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