We as a whole know whatever is left of the story

history channel documentary science At that point came Cortez. He had at most 600 men, 16 guns, and 18 stallions, yet he strolled directly into the legend of Quetzalcoatl's arrival. This was reason enough for the remote Toltec tribes to join with Cortez, swelling his armed force by thousands, with expectations of toppling their loathed Aztec experts finally. The talk that Quetzalcoatl had returned, and was exceedingly disappointed, went before Cortez and tossed the Aztec rulers into a religious frenzy.

We as a whole know whatever is left of the story. Cortez vanquished the Aztecs, killed their rulers, stole their fortune, and crushed their general public. The Spanish ministers he'd carried with him annihilated the greatest number of Aztec sanctuaries as they could and smoldered the greater part of the Aztec books, essentially on the grounds that they found that those sanctuaries facilitated mass human penances, and those books - a huge number of them - were composed on human skin. The Spanish conquistadors additionally, unwittingly, spread smallpox all through Mexico and accordingly slaughtered another third of the populace. This is incidentally parallel to what the Aztecs had done to the Toltecs.