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Hace 4 días · After eight months of battles and negotiations, which overcame the diplomatic resistance of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II to his visit, Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlan on 8 November 1519, where he took up residence with fellow Spaniards and their indigenous allies.
- Spanish-Indigenous allies victory
- Aztec Empire and other indigenous states, (modern-day Mexico)
Hace 2 días · Moctezuma Xocoyotzin in the Codex Mendoza. (Click on image to enlarge) Dozens of richly dressed nobles and high officials surrounded the Aztec emperor, Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, whose name (Moctezuma) means “Angry like a Lord”. He wore ornaments of gold, precious stone and fine feathers, and a crown of turquoise gleamed upon his head.
Hace 2 días · This legend links the headdress to the Aztec tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, also known as Moctezuma II, the ruler who encountered the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1519. The story diverges along two different lines.
Hace 5 días · The meaning of ‘Náhuatl’. Aztec pleasure gardens. Tenochtitlan was a garden city, and the Aztecs/Mexica, in Jacques Soustelle’s words ‘had a positive passion for flowers’. This may hardly be surprising given that 1 in 10 of all the 250,000 species of plants in the world are found in Mexico - and half of these are ‘endemic’ to the ...
Hace 4 días · From 1519 to 1521, Hernán Cortés waged a campaign against the Aztec Empire, ruled by Moctezuma II. From the territories of the Aztec Empire, conquistadors expanded Spanish rule to northern Central America and parts of what is now the southern and western United States, and from Mexico sailing the Pacific Ocean to the Spanish East ...
Hace 4 días · The manuscript, commonly referred to as the Florentine Codex, consists of twelve books that cover a range of different topics. The twelfth book focuses on the Spanish conquest of Mexico between 1519 and 1521. Around 1553-55, Sahagún gathered accounts from indigenous elders who lived in the Mexica (Aztec) capital of Tenochtitlan during the ...
Hace 4 días · The history of Mexico City stretches back to its founding ca. 1325 CE as the Mexica city-state of Tenochtitlan, which evolved into the senior partner of the Aztec Triple Alliance that dominated central Mexico immediately prior to the Spanish conquest of 1519–1521.
