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- Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
22: ...n Egypt, surpassed only by the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]] in [[Mexico]], which is larger in volume. When ...
24: ...y as little as 1/50th of an inch as well as being fit so perfectly together that the tip of a knife co...
26: ...t is the largest of the three and appears to be unfinished, roughly cut in stone. The middle chamber o...
28: ...mposed of nine large granite blocks, separated by five small relief chambers. It contains a huge grani...
30: ... ascending, leading into the burial chamber. This final asscending corridor is a fantastic space with ... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
12: ...e and his father-in-law, to lead an expedition, officially to explore and trade with the rumored new l...
15: ...he king. Cortés applies the classical rhetorical figure of evidentia as he crafts a powerful narrativ...
18: ...[La Malinche]]," later made legendary in book and film (even if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Di...
22: ...tory, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico''.) Finally, some assert that the myth was a fabrication...
27: ...s, broadswords, battle axes, horses, war dogs and firearms quickly won the battle. Cortés said that i... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
3: ...ipality (population 44,653 as per 2000 [[census]] figures), in the [[Mexico (state)|State of México]]...
7: ...een translated as "The place of the precious sacrifice".
17: ...in the [[New World]] after the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]]), the '''Pyramid of the Moon''', the '''Temple ...
30: ...s a place of pilgrimage in Aztec times, who identified it with the myth of Tollan, the place where the... - Toltec (2981 bytes)
5: ...to have introduced the habit of mass [[human sacrifice]] as later practiced by the Aztecs.
9: ...he fall of Tula some of the Toltec retreated to [[Cholula]], which did not fall until centuries later when ...
13: * Chalchiuh Tlatonac – first Toltec king, founder of Tula - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
2: ...e generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the [[Spanish colonization of the Ame...
6: ...greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the [[Black Legend]], also did little to exp...
14: ...fe and cousin Leonor Sánchez Pizarro Altamirano, first cousin of Pizarro's father. Through his father...
18: ...ng period of training and experience as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would ...
20: ...ixteen-year-old boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provinc... - Mesoamerican pyramids (5839 bytes)
1: ...world by volume – is the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]], in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[Mexican state|stat...
35: ...ants were probably of [[Matlatzinca]] ethnicity), Cholula (whose inhabitants were probably [[Oto-Manguean l...
49: ...er the [[Valley of Oaxaca]] region from the early first millennium BCE to about the 14th century.
54: ...ern Mesoamerica, built by cultures whose ethnic affiliations are unknown:
58: ... of the astonishing, accurate functions of the edifications. The ones that stand out the most are: '''... - Step pyramid (3866 bytes)
7: ... and may have had [[Astrology|astrological]] significance. Kings sometimes had their names engraved on...
11: ...khemkhet and Khaba, built similar structures. The first step pyramid was built for Djoser (or Zoser).
13: ...Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid at Dahshur, were the first true pyramids to be built as such from scratch...
18: ...cal basis. This is true of the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]] and of the [[Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan]].
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