Various languages collectively known as Nahuan were spoken by the peoples in the areas as early as 600AD. However, by 1000AD, speakers of the Nahuatl language began to be dominant people in the region. As the influence of the Aztec Empire grew over the subsequent centuries, so did the Nahu...
With that driving them, the Conquistadors began again under the Catholic Spanish flag, but they began again a little differently. This time around, the missionaries weren't nearly as hard on the people. De Vargas, though, was intent on punishing the people for every perceived tiny infraction ...
Retail outlets for such products still oper- ate through-out the country, but often under very restrictive conditions. However, the universal adoption of the internet, computers and smartphones, the expansion of network bandwidth to support video and the rise of online commerce (including package ...
The Aztec empire became a formidable power under Montezuma I, who led territorial expansion during the empire’s golden age. Defeat: 1519-1521 The expansion of the Aztec Empire came to a startling halt during the first quarter of the 16th century, with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors...
Aztec education was comprehensive and mandatory for all children. It began at home, where girls learned domestic skills, and boys acquired their fathers' trades. At the age of 12 to 15, children attended a school known as a cuicacalli, where they learned ceremonial songs and their people's ...
Compiled in 1542, and richly illustrated, the Codex Mendoza is one of the key primary sources from Aztec times. It was completed at the instigation of Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and provides exquisite details about Aztec history, the expansion of their “empire” and the territorial tribu...
The Aztec economy can be divided into a political sector, under the control of nobles and kings, and a commercial sector that operated independently of the political sector. The political sector of the economy centered on the control of land and labor by kings and nobles. Nobles owned all...
doi:10.1017/S0959774314001061BrodaJohannaCambridge University PressCambridge Archaeological JournalBroda, Johanna. 2015. Political expansion of the creation of ritual landscapes: A comparative study of Inca and Aztec cosmovision. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 25:219-38....
studies began of the Toltec and the Aztec in Mexico and of the Inca in South America. In 1926 the discovery of human cultural remains associated with extinct fauna near Folsom, N.Mex. (see Folsom culture), established the substantial depth of prehistory for the New World (see Americas, ...
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