This video uses Google Earth to trace the fall of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century. By following the landscapes of ...
Mexico great empire at the time of the Spanish conquest often referred to as Aztec. It was actually Mexica, although the two ...
Two empires met in 1519 when Hernan Cortes' conquistadors entered Tenochtitlan and encountered the court of the Emperor Moctezuma. The Aztecs didn't know what to make of the horses brought in by the ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered two iron ship anchors off Mexico's Gulf Coast that they say date back 500 years and could have belonged to Spaniard Hernan Cortes' fleet, which ...
The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archeologists have found a mass grave in Mexico City with four dozen human skeletons laid out in neat lines that could reveal clues about the 16th century Spanish conquest that ...