I think this makes it seem more obvious than it was. I think that they wanted quite a lot of domination, for example, they wanted to plunder the Aztec empires’ storied hoard of gold, And then they wanted to take over and force people to mine and labor for them more than they wanted to trade with a functioning empire.. I also don’t think it was easy for the Aztecs to understand what the Spanish wanted, or how legalistic their culture was, especially given that, like I noted, Cortes was acting basically as a unilateral renegade.
I think this makes it seem more obvious than it was. I think that they wanted quite a lot of domination, for example, they wanted to plunder the Aztec empires’ storied hoard of gold, And then they wanted to take over and force people to mine and labor for them more than they wanted to trade with a functioning empire.. I also don’t think it was easy for the Aztecs to understand what the Spanish wanted, or how legalistic their culture was, especially given that, like I noted, Cortes was acting basically as a unilateral renegade.