When the explorers first came to America.
2007-02-09 14:30:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
because they had never seen anyone like them. Especially for the Aztec-Spanish relation. The Spanish rode in on big ships and horses and had fancy armor plus their physical features such as eye and hair color were different.
2007-02-09 14:34:39 · answer #1 · answered by Ghurricane87 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Reminds me of the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy,” a native in the Kalahari Desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. I found this to be very amusing, but I also began to see parallels between his thought process, and that of the modern day Theist. Both are using CAVEMAN LOGIC to explain their world. I fail to see the difference between “hmm, bottle fall from sky, must be gods” and “hmm, trees and butterflies prove the existence of god.”
The Natives fall into the similar pattern. In fact, the belief in gods, angels, demons and things that go bump in the night can be traced to early ancestors of mankind in general, some 100,000 years ago which coincides with the first time ancient graves were found with ornaments and ceremonial drapings, all indicating a belief in the afterlife world view....
Primitive cultures coming into "first contact" with more advanced civilizations will automatically result in the avanced people being thought of as gods. Explaining the unknown universe by the supernatural route is an ancient trait of mankind.`
2007-02-09 15:01:02 · answer #2 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Aztecs thought Hernan Cortes was a god because the main god Quetzcoatl (sp?) was fair skinned, bearded, and would return across the sea.
2007-02-09 14:36:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
he's not chinese language he's white. as a replace of choosing effective solutions approximately chinese language human beings by means of blacks, he options a racist answer against blacks that would not even handle the supposedly actual situation the question proposes. So, flag this submit and circulate on -_-
2016-12-17 13:19:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the horses! Horses weren't native to the Americas at that time.
2007-02-09 14:53:34 · answer #5 · answered by Martin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because someone told them there would be some coming.
Good reason to think for yourself.
2007-02-09 14:40:03 · answer #6 · answered by canron4peace 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cortez also landed on the day (I think) that it was prophesied their god would return.
2007-02-09 15:06:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They had never seen them before?
2007-02-09 14:39:21 · answer #8 · answered by Karrissa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they were so much better looking and they had relatively advanced technology
2007-02-09 15:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by answer man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were superstitious
2007-02-09 14:47:22 · answer #10 · answered by ihau248 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋