It is believed that groups of hunter-gatherers, known as the Native Americans, while hunting, crossed a land bridge where the Bearing Strait is, and arrived in North America. Once in the Americas these people migrated throughout the Southern and Northern continents (Macdonald 6).

The Aztecs are thought to have originated in the four corners area of the U.S.

Kings and queens controlled the Spanish government. There were also nobles that would assist the king in governing the country. These nobles owned large estates that were worked on by the common people. Some ordinary men also owned their own farms. The other groups of people were made up of merchants and artisans who made their living in the shipyards and marketplaces. The Catholic Church was also a powerful figure at this time, late 1400s. They helped to role the government, and encouraged the spreading of the faith throughout the known world.

Even though the Aztec's religion did contain human sacrifice does not necessarily mean that they were immoral. For something to be immoral a person must know and understand that the action is wrong. The Aztecs not only did not know that human sacrifices were iniquitous, their religion taught them that they were a necessity of life. Human sacrifices are by far the only debatable moral issue, and do to the fact that they did not understand the morality, they are not held accountable for. The Aztec's religion may not have been completely moral, but it was not immoral (Defrates 17)

After the failure of the four previous suns, Nanahuatl, another god that was created by Ometeuctli, sacrificed his own life by throwing himself into the Divine Fire, a mythological fire pit of death. Slowly the other gods saw a new sun that had begun to rise in the east. The sun's flares were so extremely intense that no one was able to look at it. In order to avoid the destruction of the fifth sun, and final sun, the Aztecs believed that they must sacrifice their captives of war. By giving blood to the sun, it will obtain enough energy to continue to rise each morning. The Aztecs believed blood was the most vital element that kept a man alive, and the same must have been true for the fifth sun. On the other hand, if blood was not given to sustain the fifth sun's life, chaos would rule. Earthquakes would rumble and destroy the world. The fifth sun would meet its final end when the earthquakes shook the very stars down from the sky. There would be no sixth sun. The structure of the universe would remain constant despite the vast destruction of the suns (Von Hagen 27).

In the Aztec religion their world-view stems from the idea that there were four previous suns before the present-day fifth sun. The five suns are part of the Aztec's long history of the universe. The Aztecs believe that there was a supreme creator of all, who they would call Ometeuctli, but often referred to as the lord of duality because he was both male and female. Ometeuctli's cosmic coupling gave birth to four lesser, creator-gods. These gods would later create the five suns. Each creator-god struggles for supremacy over the others using his own unique cosmic force: earth, fire, wind, or water. When these cosmic forces are in equilibrium, there exists an age or sun from the balance. When the cosmic balance is disrupted, the result will be destruction of the sun, of the earth and of all men (Roberts 26).

Now one must think about what the Spanish did next. They began to convert the people to Catholicism. First the Spanish came, abused their hospitality, killed their men, stole their wealth, destroyed their way of life, and now wanted to convert them. Why should the Aztec's convert to a religion that had just slaughtered their people, and enslaved the remaining? Men are thought to be treated as equals in the religion, yet the Aztec's were treated as dogs. The spreading of the Christian faith is good, but not in this way. The conquistadors should have been examples of a model Catholic, yet they acted as vicious barbarians towards those that they later taught the value of love to. The Spanish may try to compensate their actions in saying that they helped to stop an immoral religion, but this is far from the truth. The Spanish acted on selfish motivation, and even if this had been their reason for attacking never has tw

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