1. Money, money, money. Or, as the saying goes, the three G's; Gold, Glory, and God. But for the Conquistadors, it was Gold and Glory.
2. The Aztecs first accepted Cortes because Cortes arrived when the Aztecs believed a God was supposed to arrive, kinda like that movie The Road to El Dorado, and so the Aztecs welcomed him with open arms.
I would say 30,000 cause all the next developments were from the 1860's forward and that is when huge growth happened, after 1860.
<span>The answer is A. A religious work of art depicting holy people and/or events. An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and certain Eastern Catholic churches. The most common subjects include Christ, Mary, saints and/or angels.</span>
