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Author | : Frances F. Berdan |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Frances F. Berdan |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This case study is about the Aztecs of central Mexico, a people who dominated a vast area of what is now Mexico when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in AD 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. The larger part of this book is devoted to an ethnographic reconstruction of Aztec culture as it flourished in the period immediately preceding the conquest.
Author | : Miriam Melton-Villanueva |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2022-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816546975 |
Download The Aztecs at Independence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers--Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.
Author | : José Luis de Rojas |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813059461 |
Download Tenochtitlan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire before the Spanish conquest, rivaled any other great city of its time. In Europe, only Paris, Venice, and Constantinople were larger. Cradled in the Valley of Mexico, the city is unique among New World capitals in that it was well-described and chronicled by the conquistadors who subsequently demolished it. This means that, though centuries of redevelopment have frustrated efforts to access the ancient city’s remains, much can be told about its urban landscape, politics, economy, and religion. While Tenochtitlan commands a great deal of attention from archaeologists and Mesoamerican scholars, very little has been written about the city for a non-technical audience in English. In this fascinating book, eminent expert José Luis de Rojas presents an accessible yet authoritative exploration of this famous city--interweaving glimpses into its inhabitants’ daily lives with the broader stories of urbanization, culture, and the rise and fall of the Aztec empire.
Author | : Frances F. Berdan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2020-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108894410 |
Download Everyday Life in the Aztec World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Everyday Life in the Aztec World, Frances Berdan and Michael E. Smith offer a view into the lives of real people, doing very human things, in the unique cultural world of Aztec central Mexico. The first section focuses on people from an array of social classes - the emperor, a priest, a feather worker, a merchant, a farmer, and a slave - who interacted in the economic, social and religious realms of the Aztec world. In the second section, the authors examine four important life events where the lives of these and others intersected: the birth and naming of a child, market day, a day at court, and a battle. Through the microscopic views of individual types of lives, and interweaving of those lives into the broader Aztec world, Berdan and Smith recreate everyday life in the final years of the Aztec Empire.
Author | : Charles Phillips |
Publisher | : Southwater |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Aztec mythology |
ISBN | : 9781846810732 |
Download The Complete Illustrated History of the Aztec and Maya Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This wide-ranging reference book covers almost 3000 years, offering enthralling insights into the art and architecture, myths and legends, and everyday life of Mesoamerica. Stories of sun-gods and blood sacrifice, of pyramids and temples, and of the fabulous treasuries filled with gold have fascinated many generations. The World Heritage sites of historic Mexico City and Tenochtitlan, Teotihuacan, Chichen Itza, Tikal and Monte Alban are examined in detail. This unrivalled volume is not only a perfect introduction to the history of these lost civilizations, but also a stunning visual record of a unique period that has helped to shape our world.
Author | : Frances F. Berdan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521881277 |
Download Aztec Archaeology and Ethnohistory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of Aztec culture, encompassing topics of history, economy, social life, political relations, and religious beliefs and ceremonies. It offers an integrated view of Aztec life, grappling with thorny issues such as human sacrifice and the controversial role of up-and-coming merchants. The book meshes data, methods, and theories from a variety of disciplines including archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, and art history.
Author | : Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Mexico Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal
Author | : Camilla Townsend |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190673060 |
Download Fifth Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Publisher | : Guggenheim Museum |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Aztec art |
ISBN | : |
Download The Aztec Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. A nomadic culture, the Aztecs eventually settled on several small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peru. The Aztecs are the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century. Various sources, including those of religious, military, and social historians left invaluable records of all aspects of life and together with modern archaeological inquiries portray the formation and flourishing of a complex imperial state. The Aztec Empire, organized by Felipe Sol's Olgu'n, the distinguished curator and director of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City, provides not only a thorough representation of Aztec society at the zenith of the empire in the 15th century, but also the context for its development, expansion, and influence. The exhibition features more than 500 archaeological objects and works from Mexico and the United States, including jewelry, works of precious metals, and household as well as ceremonial artifacts. Many of the objects have never been seen outside Mexico, and many will be exhibited with works from the U.S. collections for the first time. This accompanying catalogue includes scholarly essays by foremost Mexican and U.S. authorities from diverse fields and promises to become a major reference on the subject. The essays provide in-depth discussions of various aspects of the culture, such as the Aztec view of the cosmos; their religion and rituals; daily life of common citizens, as well as the nobility; and ecological and anthropological evaluations. It also provides expanded, detailed catalogue information for each work in the exhibition.