Hernan Cortez was also a thief.  He took many riches from the Aztecs, but he only wanted gold.  There was a war that started and that is when he started stealing all of the gold and riches from the Aztecs

When we conquered the Aztec City Hernan renamed it Mexico City. Hernan wanted to have his own land so he had us as his crew kill the Aztecs so he could conquer the City and make it his own.  He also stole their gold, riches, and land.  I didn't want to be a killer  but because I was part of Hernan Crew I was forced to help him accomplish these missions and kill the people who were standing in the way of Hernan succeeding. Now I will be called a killer,

Like the Taino people, many of the Aztecs died from diseases.  We, the Spanish actually were the ones who brought the diseases to their country.  I feel so sad that everyone is getting sick and dying.  Because he brought so many sick people and slaves to their cities they now have these diseases also. Because Hernan wants to conquer the Aztec City he has forced us, his crew,  to kill everyone.  I am not speaking to Hernan during our trip because he doesn't care about what is happening to his crew or the people we are trying to conquer.  All he cares about is stealing their gold and riches.

How would you feel about many of your family, friends, and people in your town dying from diseases?  Hernan Cortes didn't care.  I am very upset because many people are sick and dying and he isn't doing anything to help any of us.  He is also pressuring us into killing people.  He forced us, his crew, into killing the Aztecs so he could conquer the Aztec City.  He forced us to fight and kill for him and he turned out to be a thief.  When the war started he stole a lot of other peoples gold and riches and did not allow us to have any of the gold.

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When we were sailing the ocean many people followed us on it. Everyone knew how good of a leader he was and they wanted to follow him.  We all knew that everyone wanted to find gold, riches and a new life.  Because of that they were trying to sabotage other people who were looking for the same thing and ruin our trip to the Golden Cities.  Luckily our ship wasn't hit or sabotaged.

As you can see the trip with Viceroy was very interesting and that is what amazed me.   

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we sent back many messages like a small cross would mean no cities were found and a large cross would mean that we found the golden cities, but when we sent things back no one answered us. That was mean!!!
 viceroy was a good person but he didnt want to anything except for looking for gold, so instead of reading and writing we had to send crosses. it was alot of work to send the crosses.

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when we spent weeks in the desert i thought i was going to die, because we had to find our own food and water and if we didnt go through the desert we wouldnt be going the right direction. we also had to go through the desert to find the golden cities. It was so hot in the desert!!

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Would you die if you had to spend weeks in a desert on a trip? thats what viceroy mendoza did while looking for the golden cities. I was very impressed because we had to spend weeks in a desert and find our own food and water. that was kind of challenging!!! we knew how to send back messages. but nobody sent anything back. Maybe they didnt get any messages. many people followed us on the voyage. He was a really good leader maybe thats why. it was really fun!!!