So... then the myth that the Aztec people, being oppressed, walked in the ocean & vanished is totally unreal?

Question

Because my family used to tell me those stories when i was young. We even found very explicit figures of clay shapped in mini statues of the aztec people in the river by my grandparents house in Mexico... I guess theyre valuable artifacts because they look very old. And because we found them in the river, my grandparents start telling us their stories.. and dudes they are very old, so it was kind of believable! if this is totally a bizzar myth, u really cant blame me for believin them!!! lol

Answer 1

Yeah, totally bizarre myth and untrue. But, heck, that's what grandparents and other old people are for, to scare little kids with weird stories! Did they tell you about "La Llorona?"

Answer 2

In 1520-1521, an outbreak of smallpox swept through the population of Tenochtitlan and was decisive in the fall of the city. It is estimated that between 10% and 50% of the population fell victim to this epidemic.

Subsequently, the Valley of Mexico was hit with two more epidemics, smallpox (1545-1548) and typhus (1576-1581). The Spaniards, trying to make more of the diminishing population, merged the survivors from small towns into the bigger ones. This broke the power of the upper classes and dissolved the coherence of the indigenous society. Collected in larger towns, the people were more susceptible to epidemics due to the higher population density.

The population before the time of the conquest is estimated at 19 million; by 1550, the estimated population was 4 million and by 1581 less than two million. Thus, the indigenous population of the Central Mexico Valley is estimated to have declined by more than 80% in the course of about 60 years.

The "New Spain" of the 17th century was a depopulated country and many Mesoamerican cultures were wiped out. Because of the fall of their social structure, the population had to resort to the Spanish to maintain some order. In order to have an adequate supply of labor, the Spaniards began to import black slaves; most of them eventually merged with the local population

Answer 3

The fact is they were very oppressed. They are still here even today but they are called something else. You should believe your grad parents because not believing them is very disrespectful. They tell stories to help you learn about the past and how not to repeat their mistakes.

Answer 4

Isn't the current theory that they all got small pox from the Spanairds and died or interbred with the strangers?
I have never head that myth truthfully. Sounds pretty neat