In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...
La Malinche is one of the most well-known historical figures and representatives of indigenous women in Mexico. Also known as ...
One of the latter, undoubtedly, was that of the Conquest of Mexico, by Spaniards led by Hernán Cortes, who arrived ... These were much longer instruments than Aztec spears. Also, the Spaniards ...
In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...
Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this anniversary, a special issue of Arqueología Mexicana was published ...
According to Aztec tradition ... the Aztec ruler Montezuma II to open up his kingdom to Hernan Cortes, who led the Spanish conquest into the Americas in 1519. He may have believed that Cortes ...
It could be described as a conquistador epic, set in 1519 as Hernán Cortes ... conquest, so a traitor to Mexico, is seen in a new light as a woman battling to maintain peace between the Aztec ...