Modern-day Mexico was formed in 1521, when a 500-strong group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, alongside thousands upon thousands of indigenous Mexicans, seized control of the centre of ...
In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...
A note on spelling and translations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water and the sacred city -- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan -- Chapter 4: The city in the conquest's wake -- ...
Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For years, the story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth. But a closer look at ...
Every Thursday evening at a park in the Pilsen neighborhood, a group of Aztec dancers, some originally from Mexico City, gather to practice the ancestral ritual amid the laughs of children on the ...
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Archaeologists just lifted three stone chests from the Templo Mayor in Mexico City — each packed with greenstone figurines and more than 4,000 marine specimens
Beneath the ruins of the Aztec empire’s most sacred temple, in the heart of what is now downtown Mexico City, archaeologists ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. What first comes to mind for most of us when we think of the Aztecs is human sacrifice, conquest and ...
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