Montezuma's Pyramid.
Our home-school kids are now studying the Spanish Conquest of Mexico.
To help visualize some of the amazing pre-conquest buildings made by the Aztecs, we are making our own little papier mache pyramid--using bread-stick boxes again since we still have lots of them.
It is well known that Montezuma and his priests and advisers believed in a prophecy that one of their founding gods, Quetzalcoatl, was going to return from the east and destroy their civilization and bring forth a new one. (One which would not need or allow human sacrifices,)
And it is quite a coincidence that Cortes appeared on the shores of Mexico in the very year predicted!
Of course, we know that bearded Spaniard Hernan Cortes was no "Return of Quetzalcoatl", or was he?
He, with his soldiers in armor, horses, war dogs, crossbowman, cannon and harquebusiers sure made an impression on the mighty Aztecs--and did, in an unexpected, but in a practally miraculous way, end one civilization and start another.
To help visualize some of the amazing pre-conquest buildings made by the Aztecs, we are making our own little papier mache pyramid--using bread-stick boxes again since we still have lots of them.
It is well known that Montezuma and his priests and advisers believed in a prophecy that one of their founding gods, Quetzalcoatl, was going to return from the east and destroy their civilization and bring forth a new one. (One which would not need or allow human sacrifices,)
And it is quite a coincidence that Cortes appeared on the shores of Mexico in the very year predicted!
Of course, we know that bearded Spaniard Hernan Cortes was no "Return of Quetzalcoatl", or was he?
He, with his soldiers in armor, horses, war dogs, crossbowman, cannon and harquebusiers sure made an impression on the mighty Aztecs--and did, in an unexpected, but in a practally miraculous way, end one civilization and start another.
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