Passage VI When Hernan have no idea that Cortez left Cuba in February of 1519 wi
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Passage VI When Hernan have no idea that Cortez left Cuba in February of 1519 with 550 soldiers on 11 ships, he could of his conquest, but as an old one of the soldiers in his company would become the last living soldier great conquest. Fernando Bernal Diaz not only participated in all of the great events of the , bold man living without fans in Honduras. While he happened to read of 79 to complete his eminently readable six-volume account of the conquest of Mexico. ze and romanticize history of the conquest written by a priest and determined-at the age set the record straight, Though Bernal Diaz died at the age of 84, he was able to Though the priest's version of the conquest tells that Cortez secretly burned the boats of the expedition so that his men would be unable to retreat and would have to advance Diaz corrects him. Cortez, said Diaz, was appalled to learn that the boats had been attacked by sea worms and that they were no longer sea worthy. Moreover, the fittings of the ships were made of metal that could be salvaged and used to make both guns and ammunitions necessary for the conquest. According to Diaz, Cortez called his men together and informed them of the problems, then they voted to burn the ships. Diaz also set the records straight with regard to Dona Marina, a brilliant girl from Yucatan tribe, who spoke several of Mexican dialects and thus became invaluable to Cortez as interpreter, negotiator, and guide. He acknowledges that Dona Marina bore Cortez's son and that she was with Cortez in the center of a fire storm of gossip when Cortez's wife died shortly after she arrived in Mexico City from Cuba. He details out Cortez's marriage for Dona Marina t o one of his lieutenants before watching off toward the northwest of new exploration and conquest and vanishing somewhere near the sea of Cortez- the inland there between the lower southern California and the main land, the bay that bears his name. Almost incidentally, Diaz describes how some indolent aristocrats from Spain, expecting to use their fortunes in the new world, were given large grants of land on some of the Caribbean Island s. But, of course, they could earn little from their lands without workers, so they approached Bernal with a proposition that they would provide the financing if he would help to carry back the local population to bondage. For this, his reward would be half of the captives Diaz showed his humanity and humility as he refused this partnership, declaring such an act on the homes, culture, and lifestyle of free peoples a terrible injustice. 31. The central idea of this passage is a) Bernal Diaz corrected the record of Cortez's conquest of Mexico b) Bernal Diaz proved that Cortez did not trick his men into Mexico by burning their boats Hernandez Diaz conquered Mexico in one of the greatest invasions the world has ever known Dona Marina was a great help to Cortez during his great battles of Mexico c)Explanation / Answer
1.The central idea of this passage is Bernal Diaz corrected the record of Cortez's conquest of Maxico.
2. Option a. Cotez asked his men to vote on whether or not to burn their ships because he has only called his men together and informed them of the problems, he did not asked whether to burn or not to burn the ships.
3. In my openion Indolent nearly means poor.
4. The purpose of the passage is to inform the reader of Diaz's contribution to our knowledge of Cortez's conquest.
5. Option C. But, ifcoif cotehy could earn little from their lands without workers, so they approached Bernal with a proposition that they would provide the financing if he would help to carry back the local population to bondage.
6. Option A. This passage is bias in favor of Bernal Diaz.
7. Pious could be best described as the tone of this passage.