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 ...

Among other things, it traces Latin America’s largely unrecognized role in the abolition of the doctrine of conquest and the ...

"The goal of this conquest was not only to gain territory ... In 1519, however, Cortés invaded the Aztec Empire. With 500 Spanish soldiers, he landed in Veracruz and proceeded to march inland ...

This small insect, native to the Americas, was used by the Aztecs to create a vivid red dye, which would eventually ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is ... Their power came to an end with the Spanish conquest.

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known ... ruled over Mexico on the eve of the Spanish conquest. "About Moctezuma II, we have many ...

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.