And The Saga Continues

The Mesoamerican story just keeps getting better and better. From our previous readings, It just kept saying that we don't know much about Teotihuacan except that the Aztecs have visited like a place of pilgrimage and that they thought that it was built buy giants or gods, I think. Now we have looters, and stories of self destruction.

Now, the only story I've ever heard in my Mexican-Amercian History class and Mexican-American culture class is that Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztecs. You know, I've never really questioned it before, but what the heck does that mean anyway? I get this cheesy-novela image of some knight in a shining armor coming over to a bunch of cavemen and because of the "mental superiority," he just said, "Okay, I own you now." Like one would a puppy at a pet store.

Well, I'm learning that that's not exactly what happened. Mentally, human races, cultures, etc.; we're all on the same playing field. Also, that cheesy-novela image has another hidden idiom of good vs. bad.; cowboys & indians. I'm sure I've had this image in my head because that's what the goal of the  writers (a.k.a., the winners) of history will have us believe. As a product of the public school system, I'm not surprised. Critical thinking was imposed on us a little too late. High school? I mean come on. Europeans are teaching their kids about Plato and Socrates before the age of nine! I only learned about the subject of philosophy in college, and even then, it's because I chose to do so. It should just be a straight up minimum requirement like math and reading.

I need to slow down there... I'm going off on a tangent that can be explored later. 

Well, back to the topic at hand. Hernan Cortez apparently had the battle of his life at Tetihuacan. I can't wait to do my reading and get to the next lessons to be posted. Because, this saga is written better than a Harry Potter book. And I hope that by the time we get to the Aztec portion of this class, that historians go into deeper accounts of exactly how it all played out between the Spaniards and the Aztecs.

And the saga continues... Tuhn, tuhn, tuuuuuhhhhnnn!