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1 day ago · The conquest of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire, marked the beginning of Spanish dominance in the region and the establishment of the colony of New Spain.
5 days ago · pre-Columbian civilizations, the aboriginal American Indian cultures that evolved in Mesoamerica (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century. The pre-Columbian civilizations were extraordinary developments in human society and culture, ranking ...
2 days ago · Pic 20: Digital reconstruction of Tenochtitlan and its environs (Click on image to enlarge) The Spaniards reached the Iztapalapa road that led to Tenochtitlán on the morning of November 8th 1519. Cortés was leading the group with some of his captains on horses and Malintzin at his side.
4 days ago · Around 1553-55, Sahagún gathered accounts from indigenous elders who lived in the Mexica (Aztec) capital of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest. These firsthand accounts formed the basis of the twelfth book.
2 days ago · Who were the Mexica? The Aztecs never called themselves ‘Aztecs’, but rather ‘Mexica’ (the origin of the name Mexico). (Written/compiled by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore) Painting of a white heron by a child artist at the River Gallery School, Vermont. Others called them ‘Aztecs’, referring to the legendary home of the Aztecs in the far ...
1 day ago · Mexico City, city and capital of Mexico, synonymous with the Federal District, although the term can also apply to the city’s metropolitan area to the west, north, and east. It was built atop the razed island-capital of Tenochtitlan, the cultural and political center of the Aztec (Mexica) empire.
3 days ago · The ease of canoeing. The Aztecs were a tribe that came from a distant homeland called Aztlan, in the centre of a large lake (pic 1). One day, their god Huitzilopochtli led them on a long pilgrimage south which took hundreds of years, and they eventually settled in another lake in the Valley of Mexico. They called their new home Tenochtitlan ...
