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- Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
1: [[Image:Cortes-Hernando-LOC.jpg|thumb|250px|Hernán Cortés]]
7: ...in Italy, or trying his luck in the Spanish colonies of the [[New World]].
10: ...ds|Canaries]] (eliminating the indigenous [[Guanches]]) but would prove devastating in the New World.
12: ...pedition, but Cortés' brother-in-law killed the messenger and told him what the letter said. Thus war...
15: ...://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm] - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...[Tenochtitlan]], built on raised islets in [[Lake Texcoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]]....
7: ...orary [[Nahuatl]]-speakers would consider themselves Aztecs. More particularly, the term refers to th...
9: ...tino'', or ''Mediterranean'': a broad term that does not refer to a specific culture.
11: ...they should be known as Mexica. The [[conquistadores]] knew them as "Mexica".
13: [[Image:MexicanSculptureRememberingTheSignForTenochtitlanFoundation.JPG|thumb|right|300px... - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
3: ...ins and, over the ensuing centuries, most of Lake Texcoco has gradually been drained.
5: ...e Aztecs, a tribe of people who came in from the west, that the area acquired its importance.
7: ...on on what was then a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco. Not deterred by the unfavourable terrain, they i...
9: ...routes were developed that brought goods from places as far as the [[Gulf of Mexico]], the [[Pacific O...
11: ... with bridges. The city was interlaced with a series of canals, so that all sections of the city could... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire|fall of the Aztec empire]] a...
4: ...qués del Valle de [[Oaxaca]]'', while the more prestigious title of [[New Spain|Viceroy]] was given t...
6: ...ividual. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and ei...
10: ...th the Spanish and English languages in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by to...
14: ... distant relative of [[Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal... - Mesoamerican pyramids (5839 bytes)
1: ...est [[pyramid]] by volume – indeed, the largest in the world by volume – is the [[Great Py...
6: ... City]]. They were related to the preceding cultures in the basin of Mexico such as the culture of [[T...
14: ...ions, bounded by regional and periodical differences.
22: ...e of 2,800,000 cubic meters, it is one of the largest pyramids in the world.
31: ... The region is currently inhabited by the modern descendents of the [[P'urhépecha]]. Tarascan archite...
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