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Answer:
Your answers would be Spanish and Quetzalcoatl, respectively.
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When the Aztec first encountered <em><u>Spanish</u></em> explorers the believed the men heralded the second coming to their god <em><u>Quetzalcoatl</u></em>.
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Definitions:
Quetzalcoatl:
The Quetzalcoatl, known as the feathered serpent, was a god for most of the people in the Mesoamerican regions.
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Explanation:
The reason why "Spanish" and "Quetzalcoatl" would be the correct answer because they believed that the arrival of the Quetzalcoatl god was from the Spanish people. When the Spanish explorers came to the Mesoamerican region from places like Spain, they were just exploring the land that they stopped on, but they people that were already on the land thought that they were special people. When the Aztec encountered the Spanish explorers, they treated them like they were gods, even though they didn't have any evidence showing that they were gods. At first the Spanish explorers found this very weird, because they were just random people to them, but they rolled with what the Aztec's thought they were. The Spanish explorers actually used this to their advantage. Because the Aztecs thought they were a gift from god, they gave them and treated them with whatever they asked, and this helped the Spanish settle in the land because the Aztecs obeyed all of their orders. The Aztecs believed that if they didn't follow their orders, the gods would not accept them, so they obeyed the Spanish orders. To sum it all up, they believed that the Spanish explorers was the coming of Quetzalcoatl, but it really wasn't.
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<em>-Julie</em>
