Part one of term paper
Human beings, by nature, seek to explain the world around them and attribute human qualities to natural phenomenon. This is not unique to any particular culture in any time or place in the world. The Aztecs Empire was no exception to this rule. The Aztecs like many non-western cultures in the sixteenth century had a pantheon of Gods to which ...

Part two of term paper
... deity offer a tantalizing legacy to western historians. Historians have explored possible pre-columbian contact between the Old and New Worlds. They have even suggested that the legends that surround Quetzalcoatl aided the demise of the Aztec Empire by making the Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez appear to be the returning god. The manifestations of Quetzalcoatl, the origins of the legends that surround him, and their impact on the Aztec Empire are the focus of this paper. The translation of Que ...