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

It wasn’t just that the paper was rare.” Sahagún arrived in Mexico in 1529, about a decade after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire led by conquistador Hernán Cortés. Sahagún ...

It wasn’t just that the paper was rare.” Sahagún arrived in Mexico in 1529, about a decade after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire led by conquistador Hernán Cortés. Sahagún ...

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 ...

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 ...

As is well known, the vast world territories reached by the Spanish Crown during the reign of the Habsburgs, and their maintenance under the Bourbons, are often summed up with the expression “the ...

Digital artist Thomas Kole, originally from Amersfoort, Netherlands, has re-created the capital of the Aztec, or Mexica, empire with ... repurposed after the Spanish conquest.

That left the Inca empire weakened, so when the conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrived with Spanish troops, their superior weaponry and tactics defeated a much larger Inca force. Like the Aztec ...

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 ...

when Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés led an expedition to Mexico. His arrival introduced smallpox, which resulted in the total destruction of the Aztec Empire within just two years.