I passed. Woo-hoo. Actually, I would have gotten a perfect score but I intentionally answered two questions "incorrectly" because they represent everything that is wrong with how we are taught about our history. Click the link below to take the short 10 question quiz. See if you can guess which were the two questions that I purposely missed.
Let me know your score and your guess.
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empire fueled the rise of the Spanish empire, and by consequence, that of other European nations. But contrary to what history says were the factors in this great shift of power in America, such as superior weaponry, war tactics, strange diseases, and cunning on behalf of the so-called conquistadors, the true factor which locked the version of history we have come to know was the pen.
In no other instance of world history is the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword” truer than in the aftermath of the fall of Tenochtitlan. Another phrase seems less potent in this scenario, yet historians are known to cite it at every chance they get saying "History is written by the victor." In the case of Mexico at the end of the Aztec empire, the victor didn't know how to write for the new European audience on the other side of the world. The Tlaxcalteca and their native allies just assumed that the Spaniards would give them their fair share of the credit, which was the majority of it. But the Spanish, starting with Cortez simply stole all the glory and claimed it for themselves. Their writings which are now treated as the official record give us many descriptions of the way things supposedly were prior to the arrival of the Spanish and how the conquest was won; a version of history and events which most academicians, historians, researchers, and lay people take as concrete evidence without questioning for an instance some things that clearly do not make sense. Among the many claims the Spanish and Spanish-guided historians of the sixteenth century make are the following: 1)The Mexica practiced human sacrifice 2)Cortez burned his ships at Veracruz to force his soldiers into a fight-or-die situation: 3)Cortez was a military genius 4)Cortez challenged Moctezuma to send the full force of the Mexica military corps to face him and his little band of Spaniards so they could “Medir las fuerzas” or “Measure our strength of arms against one another”... |
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