Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
... men could. Essentially, Cortés wanted to have the glory of founding the new land and, with the justification that he was doing so in the sacred name of God, acquire gold and have the natives become vassals of Spain. Cortés landed on the eastern shore of the Yucatán peninsula in early March of 1519. ...
... men could. Essentially, Cortés wanted to have the glory of founding the new land and, with the justification that he was doing so in the sacred name of God, acquire gold and have the natives become vassals of Spain. Cortés landed on the eastern shore of the Yucatán peninsula in early March of 1519. ...
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... Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Aztec mythology said that Quetzalcoatl would come to Earth as a man and Cortés had arrived on Quetzalcoatl's birthday. Cortés arrived with around 500 men, 16 horses, and some cannon. He founded a small settlement that would eventually become the city of Veracruz. Cortés Trave ...
... Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Aztec mythology said that Quetzalcoatl would come to Earth as a man and Cortés had arrived on Quetzalcoatl's birthday. Cortés arrived with around 500 men, 16 horses, and some cannon. He founded a small settlement that would eventually become the city of Veracruz. Cortés Trave ...
La Malinche - Cloudfront.net
... Cortés traveled to Mexico in search of gold, silver, and treasures Cortés was greeted by several Aztec messengers, who thought the Spanish Conquistadors were gods (Quetzalcoatl) Cortés learned that the Aztec capital had many treasures When Cortés arrived in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, he met t ...
... Cortés traveled to Mexico in search of gold, silver, and treasures Cortés was greeted by several Aztec messengers, who thought the Spanish Conquistadors were gods (Quetzalcoatl) Cortés learned that the Aztec capital had many treasures When Cortés arrived in the capital city of Tenochtitlan, he met t ...
Geocultura
... El Museo Nacional de Antropología Exhibits archaeological collections from all over Mexico One of the finest artifacts is the mask of Teotihuacán ...
... El Museo Nacional de Antropología Exhibits archaeological collections from all over Mexico One of the finest artifacts is the mask of Teotihuacán ...
Coyoacán
Coyoacán (About this sound kojoă'kan ) refers to one of the 16 boroughs (delegaciones) of the Federal District of Mexico City as well as the former village which is now the borough’s “historic center.” The name comes from Nahuatl and most likely means “place of coyotes,” when the Aztecs named a pre-Hispanic village on the southern shore of Lake Texcoco which was dominated by the Tepanec people. Against Aztec domination, these people welcomed Hernán Cortés and the Spanish, who used the area as a headquarters during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and made it the first capital of New Spain between 1521 and 1523. The village, later municipality, of Coyoacan remained completely independent of Mexico City through the colonial period into the 19th century. In 1857, the area was incorporated into the Federal District when this district was expanded. In 1928, the borough was created when the Federal District was divided into sixteen boroughs. The urban sprawl of Mexico City reached the borough in the mid 20th century, turning farms, former lake and forests into developed areas, but many of the former villages have kept their original layouts, plazas and narrow streets and have conserved structure built from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. This has made the borough of Coyoacan, especially its historic center, a popular place to visit on weekends.