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Curtis Gardner Dr. DiMare HRS 162 13 February 2014 Spanish and English Colonization Ideals The colonization efforts of both the Spanish and the English varied in their ideals. The Spanish arrived in Mexico to find a well-established culture infrastructure of the Aztecs with Hernà ¡n Cortà ¨s arrived in 1519 in the Aztec Empire found it easier to integrate their beliefs and religion more easily. The English viewed the inhabitants of the New World as aliens and made no attempt to accept them into their colonization plans. Hernà ¡n Cortà ¨s arrived on the eastern coast of the Aztec Empire in 1519 marching with at least five hundred men. At the head of Cortà ¨s’ troops he displayed a banner displaying the image of the Virgin Mary within a crest and surrounded by the words â€Å"This is that which brought Don Fernando Cortes to conquest Mexico† called The Banner of Cortà ¨s. Also with Cortà ¨s his troops carried a flag of white and blue flames with a cross in the middle and the Latin motto: â€Å"Friends, let us follow the cross and with faith in this symbol we shall conquer.† The banner displaying the ima...