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4 days ago · The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire, ultimately reshaping the course of human history.
3 days ago · It developed gradually over the 1520s through 1540s and beyond, as the conquest wars spread and then subsided, and the new political arrangements between indigenous nobles and Spanish settlers turned into the colonial system of rule.
5 days ago · Mexica (Aztec) Human Sacrifice: New Perspectives. Following the important and ongoing archaeological excavations of the Aztecs’ sacred precinct of Tenochtitlan during 2016-17, we are delighted to be able to offer a succinct and detailed study of some of the main conclusions to be drawn, with this fine article kindly written specially for us ...
3 days ago · To acquire captives in times of peace, the Aztecs resorted to ritual warfare called flower war. The Tlaxcalteca, among other Nahuatl nations, were forced into such wars. In 1428, the Aztecs led a war against their rulers from the city of Azcapotzalco, which had subjugated most of the Valley of Mexico's peoples.
3 days ago · Terminology. First, ancient Mexicans have zero concept of what we understand as ‘sacrifice’. For us, ‘sacrifice’ is doing something we really don’t want to do, but we do it for a diet, karma, or as a religious submission.
1 day ago · The border between Texas and Mexico was established, and control of a number of territories was given to the US, including California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, most of Colorado and Arizona, and ...
3 days ago · United States took ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado Mexican recognition of Texas (and the Mexican Cession ) as U.S. territory; End of conflict between Mexico and Texas
