Hi!
I believe the correct answer is the second option: These details bring life to the horrors of his journey by slave ship.
Their is many ways Cortes conquered the Aztecs, one was with conflicted fear. Cortes used fear to scare his people basically making them worship him, and his well the Aztecs didn't have any war-type material. The Aztecs had arrows while the others had gun powder.
The early Roman empire saw Christianity as a sort of cult that was potentially dangerous. Christians practice the idea of only one God and therefore did not participate in certain pagan practices such as the Caesar worship which the Romans viewed as disloyalty to their rulers thus the persecutions against Christians began. At the end of the first century Christianity severed all ties with Judaism and established itself as an independent religion.
