What is Hernan Cortes's controbution?

Answer 1

Contribution? The Man Was a Thief and he played the native Americans against each other with false promises, his men raped the women, brought disease, devastated their crops and demoralized Mexican-Indians, he, arrived on the east coast of Mexico near the present day site of Veracruz. As his small force made its way westward from the Gulf coast, Cortés started meeting with the leaders of the various Indian tribes they found along the way. Soon he would begin to understand the complex relationship between the Aztec masters and their subject tribes. Human sacrifice played an integral role in the culture of the Aztecs. However, the Aztecs rarely sacrificed their own. In their search for sacrificial victims to pacify their gods, the Aztecs extracted men and women from their subject tribes as tribute. Cortés, understanding the fear and hatred that many of the Indian tribes held for their Aztec rulers, started to build alliances with some of the tribes. Eventually, he would align himself with the Totonacs, the Tlaxcalans, the Otomí, and Cholulans. Finally, on November 8, 1519, when Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlán (the Aztec capital), he was accompanied by an army of at least 6,000.

He was after Michaocan to conquer the Perhepecha Indians- who were more feared than the aztects and always won in there battles. The Perhhepecha Indians were very prosperous and had much gold and silver.