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- Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
5: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
7: ...choice between seeking fame and glory in a war in Italy, or trying his luck in the Spanish colonies of...
12: ...ter said. Thus warned, Cortés organized his expedition and set sail on the morning of [[January 18]],...
15: ... to say, in his narrative Cortés manipulates reality in order to achieve his overarching purpose of g...
18: ...slavery, though he proved less and less useful as it became apparent that Marina was trilingual: she s... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
1: ...to the civilization this city dominated, which at its greatest extent included much of [[Mesoamerica]]...
3: ...etre|km]] (about 25 miles) northeast of [[Mexico City]], which covers a total surface area of 82.66 [[...
5: ...ions a written accent would not appear in that position. Both pronunciations are used, and both spelli...
7: ... unknown. Recently the glyph that represents the city has been translated as "The place of the preciou...
9: ...apital of [[Tula, Hidalgo|Tula]] (''Tollan Xicocotitlan'' in Nahuatl). - Toltec (2981 bytes)
3: ...eavy, especially evident at the city of [[Chichen Itza]]. Their pottery has been found as far south as...
5: .... Thus the Toltecs seem to have introduced the habit of mass [[human sacrifice]] as later practiced by...
7: ...d to descend from Toltec ancestry via the sacred city of [[Colhuacᮝ].
9: ...]], which did not fall until centuries later when it was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [...
11: ...r after a "dark age" in Central Mexico, together with some references by the Maya. Toltec rulers are s... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...excoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]].
7: ...eals with the historical Aztec civilization, not with modern-day Nahuatl speakers.
9: ...'' was like the modern use of ''Latino'', or ''Mediterranean'': a broad term that does not refer to a ...
11: ...in Codex]] relates that after leaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the wo...
13: ... should be built. This sculpture is in [[Mexico City]].]] - Aztec mythology (10599 bytes)
6: *[[Amimitl]] - god of lakes and fishermen
12: *[[Ayauhteotl]] - goddess of mist, fog, vanity and fame
17: ...htlicue]] (also ''Chalciuhtlicue,'' or ''Chalchihuitlicue'') (She of the Jade Skirt). (Sometimes ''Acu...
24: *[[Chiconahui]] - a domestic fertility goddess
25: *[[Chiconahuiehecatl]] - associated with creation - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
1: ...ge:Tenoch2A.jpg||right|thumb|350px|Plan of Tenochtitlan ([[Dr Atl]])]]
3: ...by [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]s, [[Mexico City]] was erected on top of the ruins and, over the ...
5: ...who came in from the west, that the area acquired its importance.
7: ...ochtitlan (the [[Nahuatl language]] name for the city) was founded in [[1325]].
9: ...lan grew to become the largest and most powerful city in [[Mesoamerica]]. Commercial routes were devel... - Mesoamerica (2665 bytes)
3: ...ion of temples elevated atop stepped pyramids; a ritual ball-game (see:[[Mesoamerican ballgame]]); and...
5: ...raits. Mesoamerica's economy and geopolitics benefited from extensive use of a [[lingua franca]], the ...
9: In some writings from the 1920s and 1930s the alternative term...
12: : [[Human antiquity in Mesoamerica]] - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...in|Spanish]] ''[[conquistador]]'' who led an expedition that caused the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire...
4: ... to Spain in 1541 where he died peacefully but embittered.
6: ...scriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
14: ...mpire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to ...
16: ...as to the nature of Cortés' studies, his later writings and actions suggest he studied [[Law]] and pr...
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