The Aztecs The Conquistadors And The Making Of Mexican Culture

Author : Peter O. Koch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621063
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs, the Conquistadors, and the Making of Mexican Culture written by Peter O. Koch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing events from the discovery of the New World through the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, this book discusses the battles between the Spanish explorers and the Aztecs--battles that culminated in the ruin of a civilization. The first half of the work alternates between Aztec and Spanish history, discussing events and motivations on each side as the two cultures expanded toward one another on their way to inevitable conflict. Placing special emphasis on Aztec mythology and religious beliefs, the author explains how the Spanish exploited the Aztecs' own cultural practices to insure the success of their invasion. The gold-and-glory engines driving the Spanish Crown and the actions of contemporary Spanish explorers such as Juan Ponce de Leon and Francisco Cordoba are examined. The concluding chapters give a thorough account of the struggle between Hernan Cortes and the Aztec ruler Montezuma, including the role of other indigenous tribes in the eventual downfall of the empire. The final chapter details the siege of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, and summarizes the ultimate destruction of the Aztec civilization.

Author : Mary A. Stout
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433974126
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec History and Culture written by Mary A. Stout and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Aztecs in North America, describing the traditions and culture of the Native American group, examining their interactions with other groups of Native Americans, European settlers, and explorers, and discussing their lives in the early twenty-first century.

Author : Mary A. Stout
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 9780836836998
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztec written by Mary A. Stout and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origin, history, traditional and contemporary ways of life of the Aztec Indians of Mexico.

Author : Fernando Cervantes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981288
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquistadores written by Fernando Cervantes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.

Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aztecs of Central Mexico written by Frances F. Berdan and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study is about the Aztecs of Central Mexico, a people who dominated a vast area of what is now Mexico by the time the Spanish conquistadors arrived in A.D. 1519, but who had humble beginnings as despised nomads. The story of the confrontation and the defeat of the Aztecs by the small force of Spaniards led by Hernan Cortes is told in the last chapter.

Author : Camilla Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190673060
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifth Sun written by Camilla Townsend and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aztecs and Spaniards written by Albert Marrin and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history and culture of the Aztec Indians in the Valley of Mexico and discusses how the arrival of the conquistador Hernando Cortes brought about the fall of their mighty empire.

Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781599350745
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story of Mexico written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Morgan Reynolds Pub. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irwin R. Blacker
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612309186
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cortés and the Aztec Conquest written by Irwin R. Blacker and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three years, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, leading a few hundred Spanish soldiers, overcame a centuries-old empire that could put tens of thousands of warriors on the field. Even after his god-like reputation had been shattered, and his horses and cannons were no longer regarded as supernatural, his ruthless daring took him on to victory. Yet in the end, his prize was not the gold that he had sought, but the destruction of the entire Aztec civilization.

Author : Jacques Soustelle
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804707213
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest written by Jacques Soustelle and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes the advancing civilization of the Aztecs destroyed by Spanish conquest