Discuss the difficulties that evidence poses for reconstructing the history of the ancient civilizations of the Americas by answering all of the following questions:
• What impressed Díaz most about Aztec civilization? What was he most critical of?
• How were the Aztecs different from the Caribbean people Columbus encountered?
• How do the two accounts differ in their description of Montezuma's death?
• How did the Spanish see their conquest of the Aztecs?