Fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires
... quickly overmatched by the superior weaponry of the Spanish. Life in the “New World” quickly spread throughout the continent as the Spanish sought to gain the benefits of their new land. The Columbian Exchange caused an important change in ...
... quickly overmatched by the superior weaponry of the Spanish. Life in the “New World” quickly spread throughout the continent as the Spanish sought to gain the benefits of their new land. The Columbian Exchange caused an important change in ...
Aztecs - Christian Brothers High School
... Mexico City) • Tribute- money paid to the Aztecs by conquered people • Chinampas- man made islands on top of reed mats; floating gardens ...
... Mexico City) • Tribute- money paid to the Aztecs by conquered people • Chinampas- man made islands on top of reed mats; floating gardens ...
Aztec Civilization
... According to Aztec legend… The gods had told them to search for an eagle perched atop a cactus holding a snake in its beak. They finally saw the sign on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco. Once settled, the Aztecs shifted from hunting to farming. Slowly, they built the city of Tenochtitlán, on the sit ...
... According to Aztec legend… The gods had told them to search for an eagle perched atop a cactus holding a snake in its beak. They finally saw the sign on a swampy island in Lake Texcoco. Once settled, the Aztecs shifted from hunting to farming. Slowly, they built the city of Tenochtitlán, on the sit ...
Lesson Documents – Cortes-1
... Document C (modified, excerpted): The “Florentine Codex” is a bi-lingual encyclopedia of central Mexican life and history, created by the Franciscan friar (a member of a religious order) Bernardino de Sahagún and indigenous (native) advisors, painters and scribes. In the following texts, Bernardino ...
... Document C (modified, excerpted): The “Florentine Codex” is a bi-lingual encyclopedia of central Mexican life and history, created by the Franciscan friar (a member of a religious order) Bernardino de Sahagún and indigenous (native) advisors, painters and scribes. In the following texts, Bernardino ...
Document A (excerpted) There are only a few Aztec accounts of the
... Document B (modified, excerpted): Hernán Cortés writes to King Charles V of Spain about his march to Tenochtitlán and subsequent takeover of the city. 1. “(The area around Vera Cruz) includes as many as fifty thousand warriors and fifty villages and strongholds, all…loyal subjects of your Majesty…f ...
... Document B (modified, excerpted): Hernán Cortés writes to King Charles V of Spain about his march to Tenochtitlán and subsequent takeover of the city. 1. “(The area around Vera Cruz) includes as many as fifty thousand warriors and fifty villages and strongholds, all…loyal subjects of your Majesty…f ...
File - The Hispanic Society of Victoria
... • Aztec Gods fed on human hearts and blood • After the sacrifice, bones and skin were honored and decorated • Respectful death was also considered during war or while giving birth ...
... • Aztec Gods fed on human hearts and blood • After the sacrifice, bones and skin were honored and decorated • Respectful death was also considered during war or while giving birth ...
Answers.
... interest in the culture of the Mexican native – he wrote about their culture to preserve memory of it. Spanish rulers opposed his work because it threatened their policy of exploiting and Christianizing the natives. ...
... interest in the culture of the Mexican native – he wrote about their culture to preserve memory of it. Spanish rulers opposed his work because it threatened their policy of exploiting and Christianizing the natives. ...
Aztec Empire - ThreeAncientCivilizations
... Human sacrifice. The Aztecs believed human sacrifice was important because it provided blood offerings. These blood offerings kept the gods happy and the world running smoothly. Enemies caught in battle would be brought to the Great Temple where they would be offered to the god of Xipe Totec (sp ...
... Human sacrifice. The Aztecs believed human sacrifice was important because it provided blood offerings. These blood offerings kept the gods happy and the world running smoothly. Enemies caught in battle would be brought to the Great Temple where they would be offered to the god of Xipe Totec (sp ...
Codex Mendoza Pic and Explanation
... What is the Codex Mendoza? The Codex Mendoza is a pictographic book created in 1542CE, about 20 years after Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. The Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, likely ordered it to be written to record the cultural traditions of the Aztecs prior to Spanish invasion. The co ...
... What is the Codex Mendoza? The Codex Mendoza is a pictographic book created in 1542CE, about 20 years after Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica. The Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, likely ordered it to be written to record the cultural traditions of the Aztecs prior to Spanish invasion. The co ...
Chapter 9 part 2
... • They learned bookkeeping and business practices and became merchants. • They bought goods coming from Spain and then sold them in the colony, especially to the Indigenous peoples. ...
... • They learned bookkeeping and business practices and became merchants. • They bought goods coming from Spain and then sold them in the colony, especially to the Indigenous peoples. ...
Title: What Impact Did the Conquest Have on Aztec Society?
... efforts, Spain enacted the “New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservations of the Indians” in 1542. These laws proved to be unpopular with landowners however; they saw the abolishment of slavery. Looked down upon in his own time, De Las Casas is admired today for preserving Aztec cu ...
... efforts, Spain enacted the “New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservations of the Indians” in 1542. These laws proved to be unpopular with landowners however; they saw the abolishment of slavery. Looked down upon in his own time, De Las Casas is admired today for preserving Aztec cu ...
1. Tenochtitlan The capital of the Aztec empire, now the site of
... A member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian people who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. The first people known to inhabit an area. The moving of animals, plants, people, and diseases between the old and new worlds. A powerful communist country that sup ...
... A member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian people who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. The first people known to inhabit an area. The moving of animals, plants, people, and diseases between the old and new worlds. A powerful communist country that sup ...
1. Tenochtitlan The capital of the Aztec empire, now the site of
... A member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian people who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. The first people known to inhabit an area. The moving of animals, plants, people, and diseases between the old and new worlds. A powerful communist country that sup ...
... A member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian people who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. The first people known to inhabit an area. The moving of animals, plants, people, and diseases between the old and new worlds. A powerful communist country that sup ...
Bernardino de Sahagún
Bernardino de Sahagún (1499 – October 23, 1590) was a Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer who participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain (now Mexico). Born in Sahagún, Spain, in 1499, he journeyed to New Spain in 1529. He learned Nahuatl and spent more than 50 years in the study of Aztec beliefs, culture and history. Though he was primarily devoted to his missionary task, his extraordinary work documenting indigenous worldview and culture has earned him the title as “the first anthropologist."" He also contributed to the description of the Aztec language Nahuatl. He translated the Psalms, the Gospels, and a catechism into Nahuatl.Sahagún is perhaps best known as the compiler of the Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España (in English): General History of the Things of New Spain (hereinafter referred to as Historia General). The most famous extant manuscript of the Historia General is the Florentine Codex. It is a codex consisting of 2400 pages organized into twelve books, with approximately 2,500 illustrations drawn by native artists using both native and European techniques. The alphabetic text is bilingual in Spanish and Nahuatl on opposing folios, and the pictorials should be considered a third kind of text. It documents the culture, religious cosmology (worldview), ritual practices, society, economics, and history of the Aztec people, and in Book 12 gives an account of the conquest of Mexico from the Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco point of view. In the process of putting together the Historia general, Sahagún pioneered new methods for gathering ethnographic information and validating its accuracy. The Historia general has been called ""one of the most remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed,"" and Sahagún has been called the father of American ethnography.