In 1521, Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés completed the invasion of Mexico’s most powerful empire ... five centuries after the Aztec capital toppled, researchers are reexamining the narrative of ...

The conquest of Tenochtitlan and the subsequent consolidation of Spanish domination over the former Aztec Empire was the first major possession in what became the Spanish Empire. This vast ...

(Montezuma was Mexica, but the term Aztec is ... story of the Spanish conquest, as it has been commonly understood for 500 years, goes like this: Montezuma surrendered his empire to Cortés.

Four children in Mexico were buried in the years after the Spanish Conquest with rituals and grave offerings that suggest that pre-Hispanic customs lived on for some time after the Aztec empire fell.

Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador, or conqueror, who is best remembered for conquering the Aztec Empire in 1521 and ... After the conquest, Cortés served as a clerk to the treasurer ...

Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico ... resilience of one of the great cities of the Aztec empire. And a note before we begin, this piece contains ...

there was no such thing as an “Aztec Empire” — a term that was coined centuries after the arrival of the Spanish. Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them ...

After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and the fall of its capital, Tenochtitlán, in 1521, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New Spain. He also established a new capital ...

In 1521, Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés completed the invasion of Mexico’s most powerful empire ... five centuries after the Aztec capital toppled, researchers are reexamining the narrative of ...