Respond to classmates' interpretations. Each response should be at least 5 sentences. 1. Montezuma’s Greeting to Hernan Cortez: Week 2 I found this article very interesting it was a primary source based on Cortes’s ownLetter’s From Mexico. Cortes at the time was trying to gain back his trust with Spain. Cortes heard of a land that was prospering and filled gold. This article depicts Cortes first encounter with the Montezuma the king of the humungous Aztec empire at the time. While reading through the article, I accepted Montezuma to have attacked the outsiders and not welcome them at all into the city of Tenochtitlan. I thought he would of made an example out of Cortes and his men. That Montezuma would have either sent back Cortes and his men to warn other Spanish conquistadors or to at least scare his troops by killing Cortes. Instead, Montezuma did the complete opposite. At first, Montezuma was a bit hesitant about Cortes but I think the turning point was when Cortes exchanged gifts with Montezuma. King Montezuma did not show fear towards Cortes. Montezuma actually showed him a lot of respects almost to the point were it seemed as if Cortes was a king himself and Montezuma was just a peasant of some sort. Montezuma never at any point addressed himself as a great king nor the king of the entire Aztec empire of Tenochtitlan. It seemed that Montezuma was almost happy or thankful that Cortes had arrived. Montezuma’s reaction towards the arrival of the conquistadors was not what I expected. I could not believe that Montezuma was telling Cortes that the lands that the Aztecs lived on belonged to him and that he was willing to give Cortes what ever he wanted. Anything at that point that Montezuma had owned was now Cortes. Little did Montezuma know that Cortes’s arrival would be the beginning of the fall of the great Aztec empire at Tenochtitlan. 2. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=630 This secondary source is Micmac Chief’s interpretation of the French, which he describes as “cleverness”, by that I think he empowers that the French are selfish people because they think that their way of living is much better than the way Native Americans live. My observation was that these two cultures see life through a different perspective. Where Micmac Chief tells (in a respective way) that the Native American’s value life more than the Europeans do. I understood this article as two lives’s being compared, one where the Micmac tribe are humble people and are happy with what they have. From my perspective the Europeans are materialistic people who think their way of living is the “right way” and if you are not living in that same way then you are living the “wrong way”. One way of understanding this from the present tense would be if the upper class would judge the way the lower class lives. Micmac Chief’s response to the French does match up to what we have been traditionally taught about Native Americans. Nati ...

1. Respond to classmates' interpretations. Each response should be
at least 5 sentences.
1. Montezuma’s Greeting to Hernan Cortez: Week 2
I found this article very interesting it was a primary source
based on Cortes’s ownLetter’s From Mexico. Cortes at the time
was trying to gain back his trust with Spain. Cortes heard of a
land that was prospering and filled gold. This article depicts
Cortes first encounter with the Montezuma the king of the
humungous Aztec empire at the time. While reading through the
article, I accepted Montezuma to have attacked the outsiders
and not welcome them at all into the city of Tenochtitlan. I
thought he would of made an example out of Cortes and his
men. That Montezuma would have either sent back Cortes and
his men to warn other Spanish conquistadors or to at least scare
his troops by killing Cortes. Instead, Montezuma did the
complete opposite. At first, Montezuma was a bit hesitant about
Cortes but I think the turning point was when Cortes exchanged
gifts with Montezuma. King Montezuma did not show fear
towards Cortes. Montezuma actually showed him a lot of
respects almost to the point were it seemed as if Cortes was a
king himself and Montezuma was just a peasant of some sort.
Montezuma never at any point addressed himself as a great king
nor the king of the entire Aztec empire of Tenochtitlan. It
seemed that Montezuma was almost happy or thankful that
Cortes had arrived. Montezuma’s reaction towards the arrival of
the conquistadors was not what I expected. I could not believe
that Montezuma was telling Cortes that the lands that the Aztecs
lived on belonged to him and that he was willing to give Cortes
what ever he wanted. Anything at that point that Montezuma
had owned was now Cortes. Little did Montezuma know that
Cortes’s arrival would be the beginning of the fall of the great
Aztec empire at Tenochtitlan.

2. 2.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&p
sid=630
This secondary source is Micmac Chief’s interpretation of the
French, which he describes as “cleverness”, by that I think he
empowers that the French are selfish people because they think
that their way of living is much better than the way Native
Americans live. My observation was that these two cultures see
life through a different perspective. Where Micmac Chief tells
(in a respective way) that the Native American’s value life more
than the Europeans do. I understood this article as two lives’s
being compared, one where the Micmac tribe are humble people
and are happy with what they have. From my perspective the
Europeans are materialistic people who think their way of living
is the “right way” and if you are not living in that same way
then you are living the “wrong way”. One way of understanding
this from the present tense would be if the upper class would
judge the way the lower class lives. Micmac Chief’s response to
the French does match up to what we have been traditionally
taught about Native Americans. Native Americans are known to
be humble and hard working people, Micmac chief’s response
touches on this in his response. At the end he gives a good
example to back up his main point, where he says that Native
Americans would rather do what they love. Even though that

3. may include more labor (fishing, hunting), yet it is something
they love to do. Yes the Europeans have a lot but they cannot
even enjoy it because they work all the time. How can you
enjoy the things you work for if you’re always working? You
can’t.
5. I did my Document Interpretation on "Micmac Chief's
Observation of the French." Chrestien Le Clercq is a French
author who responded to Canada's Micmac Chief for criticizing
France. France gets criticized for how they are living. Le Clercq
responds by explaining how French people live and how
fortunate they are. He implies that Canadians are spoiled in the
text. "But why now do men of five to six feet in height need
houses which are sixty to eighty?" French people supposedly do
not believe in any religions, have no manners, no honor, and
live with no rules in their country. Le Clercq fires back saying
that they do not need much to live. As long as they have what
they need, they're are satisfied. France lacks a lot of comforts,
but Le Clercq hints that France is happy with what they have
now and that change is not necessary. To include, Le Clercq

4. states that they are happier than Canada is. Le Clercq is an
author and is a France native, so I believe that his sayings are
quite accurate. This text is valuable because poverty and
happiness still occur modern day. For example, third world
countries are quite poor and basically have no real food. But,
they make the best out of it and survive another day. I saw a
video in one of my classes last semester and I saw that people in
Africa eat food that are made of some sort of dust that they
collect on the ground and they mix it together in with some
other ingredients and eat it. People who are less fortunate make
the best of what they have and goes along with it.
6. Jacques Cartier on the Micmacs' Meeting the French, 1534
This was very interesting. The author of this was describing
when he met the Micmacs for the first time. The response was
very surprising. He says in the passage that that there were
seven boats that approached them “dancing, and making signes

5. of joy and mirth, as it were desiring our friendship.” This
indicated to me that the Micmacs seemed friendly. The response
from Cartier was to indicate to them to turn back and when they
didn’t he shot at them. Then the Micmacs tried again and again
they shot at them until they fled. The following day they met
them again and they did not shoot at them this time. It seemed
because they had more boats. Cartier was able to trade iron
wares for the skins that the Micmacs had.
The Micmacs gave so much that they left without any clothes
on. This was mentioned on one of the videos that this was a
common trade between the Native Americans and the settlers. It
mentions that later this ended up causing problems between
Native American tribes since they were trying to find the best
hunting grounds to get more skins to trade.
It is hard to tell if the Micmacs had seen foreigners before. It
seemed like they probably had and were used to friendly
foreigners. They attempted to communicate with each other by
signs and indications. This kind of is an indicator for how the
future would be, where the Native Americans would get killed
off. It seemed clear that Cartier thought of them as others and
so he was worried because there were more of the Native
Americans than them.

6. 7. I did my document on “Moctezuma’s Greeting to Hernan
Cortes”. The document was a letter which written by Hernan
Cortes in Mexico and Anthony Pagden published it in the Yale
University Press. Hernan Cortes was leading an expedition and
was one of the first colonizers from Spain. Hernan Cortes sent
this letter to Spain to inform them about their arrival to Mexico
and how he was received by Moctezuma. Moctezuma was the
king of the Aztecs. The events are written from Hernan Cortes’
perspective and it is considered a primary source. Cortes was
very detailed in the letter. When the Europeans arrived,
Moctezuma consulted the gods in search for guidance, but they
fell silent. Unable to discern what to do in this situation, he
greeted the Europeans with two hundred men behind him. I
think bringing a large amount of men along with him was
reflection of fear. Just like anyone whom has to confront a new
and difficult situation, Moctezuma took the necessary
precautions. When Cortes gave Moctezuma a gift, a sign of
peace, he subordinated himself, possibly coming to the
conclusion that he was a god. This is seen when Moctezuma
seats Cortes in his throne before he takes a seat himself. He
thinks that they are from the heavens because Cortes tells him
they came from the east. Moctezuma comes to believe he is the
god their ancestors had written about. He is so sure of it, that he
feels the need to defend himself from the things the Cempoal
and Tascalteca have said against him. He then humbles himself
by saying he is only “flesh and blood”, a mortal, just like any
other. Confirming furthermore that Moctezuma thought Cortes
was his superior.

7. 8. Micmac Chief’s Observation of the French
The article I choose was the Micmac Chief’s observation of the
French by Chrestien Le Clercq. In this article in my opinion is a
primary source. My interpretation of this article is that Micmac
Chief compares and contrasts on how people are living. In the
article they state “I beg thee now to believe that, all miserable
as we seem in thine eyes, we consider ourselves nevertheless
much happier than thou in this, that we are very content with
the little that we have;” This is letting them know that they
don’t need big things to be happy. If they have little stuff they
are still happy and don’t need big things to be considered rich
or poor. I also think that this article is trying to say that people
who have little things tend to enjoy life more and people who
have bigger things tend not to enjoy it as much because they are
always busy and trying to get more things that they can’t enjoy
in their life. What is interesting about this article is that the
bigger picture is the way people see each other as higher than
others. They don’t ever see each other as equal. “Which of these
two is the wisest and happiest--he who labours without ceasing
and only obtains, and that with great trouble, enough to live on,
or he who rests in comfort and finds all that he needs in the
pleasure of hunting and fishing?” This quote tries to explain the
two different lifestyles. He asks who has the better life. In my
opinion I think that In this Letter it tries to make you think and

8. look at things different. It makes you realize that some
problems they use to have, they still have today.
KENNETH BLANCHARD- LEADERSHIP PROCESS MAP
Using KENNETH BLANCHARD, brainstorm an important
decision that leader has had to make recently or would likely
need to make for his/her job. Create a process map that walks
through all steps of the decision-making process that your
selected leader would follow to solve a problem. Make sure to
include all the potential resources, including both internal and
external, and explain how these resources were or should be
used. In the process map, make sure to identify the type of
resource and tactical vs. strategic planning.