Factors behind the conquest of the Aztecs and the Inca empires

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject History - World history, grade: B, , course: History, language: English, abstract: This essay examines the historical factors that behind the subjugation of the Aztecs and the Inca empires by the Spanish conquistadors. The Spanish conquistadors showed so much power and ingenuity by conquering one of the most sophisticated peoples of Latin America; the Inca tribe and the Aztecs. This peoples were known to possess skills both in warfare and hand to hand combat. However history has it that even though the Aztecs and the Inca empires were so much formidable, there were some factors which rendered them helpless in the face of the Spanish conquistadors.