{"id":10132,"date":"2019-11-28T21:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T03:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2020-05-25T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T05:26:15","slug":"hernan-cortes-arrived-to-mexico-city-500-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/hernan-cortes-arrived-to-mexico-city-500-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"hern\u00e1n cort\u00e9s arrived to mexico city 500 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>earlier this month, the 500th anniversary of one of the most significant moments in human history was celebrated: hern\u00e1n cort\u00e9s, representing the spanish empire, arrived \u00a0to tenochtitlan (the modern day mexico city).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-smile\" title=\":)\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10201\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Conquista-de-Tenochtitlan-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"moctezuma meets hern\u00e1n cort\u00e9s\" width=\"472\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Conquista-de-Tenochtitlan-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Conquista-de-Tenochtitlan-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Conquista-de-Tenochtitlan-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Conquista-de-Tenochtitlan.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>moctezuma meets cort\u00e9s<\/em><\/h5>\n<p> on <strong>mexiconewsdaily.com<\/strong> reports that to commemorate the event&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>federico acosta, a mexican who <em>traces<\/em> his <em>lineage<\/em> back 16 generations to the daughter of moctezuma, and ascanio pignatelli, an italian whose ancestry goes back the same number of generations to cort\u00e9s\u2019 daughter, shared a hug at the exact same <em>spot<\/em> where their <em>forebears<\/em> met on november 8, 1519 in the aztec city of tenochtitl\u00e1n.<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>trace<\/em><\/strong> means<em> find through investigation<\/em>. <strong><em>lineage<\/em> <\/strong>means <em>ancestry<\/em>.  is <em>location<\/em>. <strong><em>forebears<\/em><\/strong> are <em>ancestors<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10200\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/reunion3-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"a symbolic hug between descendants of moctezuma and hern\u00e1n cort\u00e9s\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/reunion3-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/reunion3-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/reunion3.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><i>16 generations later, descendants of moctezuma &amp; cort\u00e9s shared a hug in mexico city<\/i><\/h5>\n<p>the post verifies the authenticity of this symbolic hug.<\/p>\n<h4>both men are sure of their <em>lineage<\/em>: acosta\u2019s family received a government pension <em>granted<\/em> to moctezuma\u2019s descendants until the 1930s, while pignatelli\u2019s family <em>inherited<\/em> one of cort\u00e9s\u2019 noble titles but sold it 150 years ago.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/grant-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>grant<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>means <em>give<\/em>, <em>allow<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/inherit-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>inherit<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>means <em>receive from a family member or a friend after they die<\/em>. it is used at the end of this hip hop classic by <strong>grandmaster melle mel<\/strong>\u00a0where it means <em>receive from previous generations<\/em>. listen for this verse at 4:18 in the video<\/p>\n<h4>so learn from the past &amp; work for the future &amp; don&#8217;t be a slave to no computer<br \/>\n&#8217;cause the children of man <em>inherit<\/em> the land &amp; the future of the world is in your hands<br \/>\nso just throw your hands in the air &amp; wave em like u just don&#8217;t care<br \/>\n&amp; if u believe that you&#8217;re the future scream it out &amp; say oh yeah<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grandmaster Melle Mel &quot;Beat Street Breakdown&quot;\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrfO6kW8EIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>in reference to the dark history that  (happened) after the the spanish arrived, pignatelli said that he<\/p>\n<h4><em>lamented<\/em> the <em>bloodshed<\/em>, telling the newspaper <em>milenio<\/em>: \u201ci know that there was a lot of suffering here, a lot of pain.\u201d at a church <em>atop<\/em> the great pyramid of cholula&#8230;where more than 5,000 cholutecas were massacred by the spanish and their indigenous allies on their way to tenochtitl\u00e1n in 1519&#8230;pignatelli <em>prayed<\/em> for <em>forgiveness<\/em> for the atrocities committed by his <em>forebear<\/em> 500 years ago.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/lament-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>lament<\/em><\/strong><\/a> means <em>he is sorry<\/em>. <strong><em>bloodshed<\/em><\/strong> is <em>violence<\/em>. <strong><em>atop<\/em><\/strong> means <em>on top of<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/pray-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>pray<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>means <em>ask god<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/forgiveness-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>forgiveness<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is <em>pardon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10212\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mestizaje-racial-mexico-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"painting of spanish man, ingeigenous woman and their kids who are mestizos\" width=\"348\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mestizaje-racial-mexico-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mestizaje-racial-mexico.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10215\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mestizaje2-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mestizaje2-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mestizaje2.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><i>paintings portray the early days of the mestizaje as <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/awkward-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awkward<\/a><\/i><\/h5>\n<p>acosta recognizes the significance and the impact of the historic meeting between cort\u00e9s and moctezuma<\/p>\n<h4>we are the fusion of two cultures, the <em>european<\/em> and ours. we are the result of that meeting, the vast majority of us have spanish and mexican blood.<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>european<\/strong><\/em> is frequently a difficult word for non-natives to pronounce. say it like this&#8211;&gt;yur-uh-PEE-un. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/european-pronunciation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listen to it here<\/a>.\u00a0 the fusion of two cultures (european and indigenous) is often referred to as the <em><strong>mestizaje<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10210\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/images-10-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"aztecs giving cort\u00e9s gifts\" width=\"342\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/images-10-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/images-10.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>we bring u gifts, cort\u00e9s. now please get the fuck out of here.\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>the article includes a summary of the conquest of mexico.<\/p>\n<h4><em>upon<\/em> <em>reaching<\/em> tenochtitl\u00e1n&#8230;cort\u00e9s and his men were met by moctezuma at the <em>entrance<\/em> to the city. the <em>tlatoani<\/em>, or ruler, of the city built by the mexica, or aztec, people, <em>greeted<\/em> cort\u00e9s and his companions with courtesy and offered them gifts in the hope that they would leave.\u00a0<em>however<\/em>, the gifts <em>whetted the spaniards\u2019 appetite<\/em> for more riches and they remained in tenochtitl\u00e1n and <em>eventually<\/em> took moctezuma <em>hostage<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>upon<\/em><\/strong> in this context means <em>when<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/tag\/reach-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><strong><em>reach<\/em><\/strong><\/a> means <em>arrive<\/em>. <strong><em>entrance<\/em><\/strong> is the noun equivalent for the verb enter. <strong><em>greet<\/em><\/strong> is <em>say hello<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/tag\/however-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><strong><em>however<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, like <em>but<\/em>,  or <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/nevertheless-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>nevertheless<\/em><\/a>, is <em>for contrasting ideas<\/em>. <strong><em>whet their appetite<\/em><\/strong> means <em>make them hungry for more<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/tag\/eventually-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><strong><em>eventually<\/em><\/strong><\/a> means <em>after awhile<\/em>. <strong><em>hostage<\/em><\/strong> means moctezuma was a <em>prisoner<\/em> of the spanish soldiers staying in tenochtitlan as guests.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10209\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cortes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"an image of cort\u00e9s crying superimposed over the noche triste tree \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cortes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cortes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cortes-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cortes.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em>cort\u00e9s lamented losing all of the aztec gold he tried to escape with on the night of sorrows (pocho.com)<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>the final comment on the conquest says&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>on june 30, 1520, the aztecs <em>revolted<\/em> and <em>drove<\/em> <em>the spanish out<\/em> of the city. many spaniards were killed during the <em>uprising<\/em> which came to be known as <em>la noche triste<\/em> (the night of <em>sorrows<\/em>). but cort\u00e9s and the surviving men <em>regrouped<\/em> and just over a year later, they <em>had conquered<\/em> tenochtitl\u00e1n.<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>drive out<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a <strong>phrasal verb<\/strong> that means <em>remove by force<\/em>. \u00a0<strong><em>drove<\/em> <\/strong>is the irregular past tense of drive. <strong><em>sorrow<\/em><\/strong> is <em>extreme sadness<\/em>. <em><strong>regroup<\/strong> <\/em>means <em>reorganize after a failure<\/em>. \u00a0<em><strong>revolt<\/strong><\/em> and <strong><em>uprising<\/em><\/strong> both indicate <em>rebellion<\/em>. <em><strong>uprising<\/strong> <\/em>is also the name of the last album released by\u00a0<strong>bob marley\u00a0<\/strong>during his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bob Marley &amp; the Wailers - Redemption Song\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CB4pQi8bObM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>this is another famous bob marley track from <em>uprising<\/em>. both songs seem to fit with the theme of this post.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; vertical-align: middle; -webkit-box-shadow: none; -moz-box-shadow: none; box-shadow: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-emoji-one\/icons\/1F60E.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Could You Be Loved\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zBqW6yKz8WA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>was the symbolic hug between descendants of moctezuma and cort\u00e9s an important moment for mexico?\u00a0 share your observations under <strong>leave a reply<\/strong><\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.217.85\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" 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