Exploring the Early Americas Conquest of Mexico Paintings
These images highlight battles between the Spanish and the Aztecs, ceremonial encounters of the Spanish conquistador with the emperor Moctezuma, and other pivotal historic moments. The series ends with the dramatic Conquest of Tenochtitlán (the capital of the Aztec civilization, now Mexico City) and the capture of the last Aztec king.
Exploring the Early Americas Conquest of Mexico Paintings
Moctezuma, leader of the Aztec empire, and Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés meet for the first time outside the city on the shores of Lake Texcoco.
Exploring the Early Americas Conquest of Mexico Paintings
Cortés leads his Spanish armies on horseback across one of the causeways and lays siege to Tenochtitlàn. He orders the complete destruction of the city. Connect with the Library
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The battle for Tenochtitlàn between the Spanish under Cortés and the Mexica under the last Aztec leader, Cuauhtémoc, is more properly called a siege. Beginning in May of 1521, it lasted well into August of that year.
Art and Vocabulary in the Common Language of Peru Called …
In Latin, Spanish, and several Amerindian languages, these books are an important part of the record of the encounter between two worlds: the Amerindian civilization of the Incas and the European culture represented by the Spanish conquistadors.
Exploring the Early Americas Interpreting the Conquest
In this section are materials illustrating these interpretations. Some of these items highlight the efforts of Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566), an early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary in the Americas, to persuade the Spanish Empire that indigenous peoples deserved humane treatment.
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Hernando de Soto, a Spanish explorer and conquistador, claims to have been the first European to see the great Mississippi River. 1565 St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish and is the oldest city in the present-day United States of America.
Buffalo-born artist Charles Cary Rumsey's 1920s Pizarro statue at …
2018年8月3日 · Photo, Print, Drawing Buffalo-born artist Charles Cary Rumsey's 1920s Pizarro statue at the Albrigh-Knox Art Gallery, a showplace for modern and contemporary art in Buffalo, New York Named for Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the sculpture was originally created in plaster and exhibited at the 1915 San FranciscExposition
Exploring the Early Americas - Library of Congress
Upon receiving word of Cortés's arrival on the coast, Moctezuma, the leader of the Aztec empire, sends his ambassadors to meet the Spanish explorers. Cortés orders a show of military strength to impress the ambassadors.
Exploring the Early Americas Cortés and the Aztecs
The son of a Spanish conquistador and an Indian woman, Diego Muñoz Camargo was educated as a Spaniard, but was also steeped in indigenous culture through his Indian family connections. An historian and interpreter, he was also a government official and landholder in the Tlaxcala region of Mexico.
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