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- Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ...er-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new lands to the we...
15: ...rpose of gaining the favor of the king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia a...
22: ...gods and Christ (to whom Quetzalcoatl was often implicitly compared).
24: ... seen the results of this sort of plunder and had plans to build a working empire of his own. He order...
29: ..., [[La Malinche]] relayed a rumor that the locals planned to murder the Spaniards in their sleep. Alth... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: ...[Tenochtitlan]], built on raised islets in [[Lake Texcoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]]....
9: ...ebates in Mexica scholarship), so this name was applied to other cultures of the same cultural group. ...
11: ...eaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the word Azteca, instead they should ...
14: ...logia e Historia, for example, refers to these people as Mexica.
17: ...Mexitli]], or a type of weed that grows in [[Lake Texcoco]]. - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tenoch2A.jpg||right|thumb|350px|Plan of Tenochtitlan ([[Dr Atl]])]]
3: ...ins and, over the ensuing centuries, most of Lake Texcoco has gradually been drained.
5: ...ot until the arrival of the Aztecs, a tribe of people who came in from the west, that the area acquire...
7: ...pa]]'' system to dry the land by setting up small plots in which they produced all the food they requi...
9: ...ial routes were developed that brought goods from places as far as the [[Gulf of Mexico]], the [[Pacif... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...ssful strategy of allying with some indigenous peoples against others. He also used a native woman, [[...
6: ...cal trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either damning or idealizing.
10: ...es in modern times, and is the name which many people know him by today.
16: ... a pale, sickly child by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]....
18: ...al career. However, those two years at Salamanca, plus his long period of training and experience as a... - Mesoamerican pyramids (5839 bytes)
1: ...tructures were usually [[step pyramid]]s with temples on top – more akin to the [[ziggurat]]s o...
6: ...pital was [[Tenochtitlan]] on the shore of [[Lake Texcoco]] – the site of modern-day [[Mexico City]]....
14: ...d-like structures were also erected to serve as a place of interment for powerful rulers. Maya pyramid...
22: ... also the name of the largest Maya temple. The temple reaches 79 metres (259 ft) high, and with a volu...
36: ...chen Itza#High_Priest.27s_Temple|High Priest's Temple]] in [[Chichen Itza]]
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