When Motecuhzoma had finished, La Malinche translated his address into Spanish so that the Captain could understand ... The Brohen Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston: Beacon ...

The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in 1519 marked the decline of the Aztec Empire, influenced by both military conflict and religious beliefs. Today, many Mexicans still honor their Aztec heritage.

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost completely obliterated. So how much do we, can we, actually know about the Aztecs that these buskers are honouring? Virtually all ...

By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, fell to the invaders after a long siege ...

and the sacred Aztec precinct is now largely taken up by the huge Spanish Baroque cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary. From here, it looks as if the Spanish Conquest of Mexico in 1521 was in ...

Others think they may be relics from the legendary island of Atlantis or proof that extraterrestrials visited the Aztec sometime before the Spanish conquest. Stories about the skulls focus heavily ...

Aztecs: (Nahuatl) A pre-Hispanic empire that controlled much of central Mexico, with a capital in Tenochtitlan, up until the Spanish conquest. The Aztecs called themselves the Culhua-Mexica. "Huey ...

It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists ... as well as reigning Spanish King Philip VI, apologize for atrocities that were committed following ...

Western scholars in the modern age latched on to the word "Aztec" as a descriptor for the most dominant empire in Central Mexico during the Spanish conquest, so it wasn't even a word the ...

The cathedral was built between 1573 and 1813 after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan and ... pyramids and structures belonging to the Aztecs. Highlights of the massive cathedral include ...