First, the Spaniards hit the locals by invasion.

During this time period of invasion,

Spaniards traveled via Brigatines, or transport ships, to the Americas. ​At around 1521 CE,
Hernandez Cortes, a spanish conquistador, ordered Gonzalo de Sandoval to surround and
mentally and physically win control over the locals. The letters to mexico stated that the
Brigantines must surround the people and torture the people to give up on their javelins, rocks, or
any weapons that could be used to attack them, which resulted to about 40,000 deaths on land
and ocean of many protective and innocent local people (Document 1).​ The surge of attacks on
the locals was brutal and merciless, as the Spaniards were overpowering with better weaponry
and technology, and the locals drastically outmatched. The poor locals only tried to defend their
lands, which was wrongfully being attacked for little to no reason, other than greed and/or
influence. This gave the Spaniards more of an authority to the locals, shaping up the social
structure for them to be slaves or extremely underappreciated; like how the British
settlers/Americans attacked and wrongfully expunged the native americans.
Secondly, the Spaniards fought via disease. At the time, Lord Cuithalhuactzin was
elected as the “official” of the local Aztecans. His admittance to the role was short lived,
however, as it was around the same time the Spaniards came and biologically attacked him via
disease. ​Around 1520, many Aztecan locals of Calco died from foreign diseases, disease in
which their bodies were not used to and/or capable of fighting. These european diseases
drastically decreased many Aztecan locals (including warriors and lord Cuithalhuactzin himself)
to die horrible deaths within 60 days, therefore favoring more power to the foreign people known
as the Spaniards (Document 2).​ The cruelty of the Spaniards diseases may have been a surprise
to the Spaniards and may have been unintentional, but the diseases were not common near “New
Spain” and the locals died from diseases such as Smallpox, measles, and pustules. This favored
the Spaniards by giving them less “competition” and “enemies” to deal with and therefore
pushing their power and influence by fear and death. In exchange, this also set an example to the
locals, and showed “their place in society” as the Spaniards conquest to conquer the land.

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