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

It sparked a Spanish ... and conquest of the Americas. But reality often belied the wild imaginings of the Spanish conquistadores. Hernán Cortés, having overthrown Aztec Mexico, seized a ...

The Aztec Empire may have ended centuries ago, but its presence is far from gone. It lingers in temple ruins, place names, and bits of language and folklore. Walk through Mexico City nowadays, and you ...

Before their defeat by the Spanish in 1521 ... and put forth the idea of an empire centered around the Mexica, one which later became widely known as the Aztec Empire. (Rare Aztec map reveals ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Conquest, Then and Now Consider the Spanish conquest of the Americas alongside ... Hernán Cortés had his men level Aztec temples, which he called mosques. Those temples served as healing places ...

The study sheds new light on the economic networks, rituals and political influence of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire ... economy that relied not only on conquest but on active long-distance trade ...

Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the Mexica (Aztec) Empire sourced this ... trade networks rather than just conquest-based acquisition.

The ship is named after Cuauhtémoc, the final emperor of the Aztec Empire during Spanish conquest in the 16th century. He was executed by a Spanish conquistador in 1525 after being captured and ...