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la Conquista; Perla Valle, Ordenanza del señor
Cuauhtémoc, trans. Rafael Tena.
- Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, Reshaping New
Spain: Government and Private Interests in the
Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531–1550; Ethelia Ruiz
Medrano, “Fighting Destiny: Nahua Nobles and
Friars in the Sixteenth-Century Revolt of the
Encomenderos against the King,” in Ethelia Ruiz
Medrano and Susan Kellogg, eds., Negotiation
within Domination: New Spain’s Indian Pueblos
Confront the Spanish State, 45–77; Felipe Castro
Gutiérrez, ed., Los indios y las ciudades de Nueva
España. - Edmundo O’Gorman, “Reflexiones sobre
la distribución urbana colonial de la ciudad de
México”; Alfonso Caso, “Los barrios antiguos de
Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco.” - See also Roberto Moreno de los Arcos,
“Los territoriales parroquiales de la Ciudad
Arzobispal”; José Rubén Romero Galván, “La
Ciudad de México, los paradigmas de dos fun-
daciones”; Anthony F. Aveni, Edward E. Calnek,
H. Hartung, “Myth, Environment, and the Ori-
entation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan.” - Calnek, “ Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco”; Edward
Calnek, “ Tenochtitlan in the Early Colonial
Period”; Edward Calnek, “Settlement Pattern
and Chinampa Agriculture at Tenochtitlan.” - Barbara E. Mundy, “Mapping the
Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of
Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings”; on the
economic organization of the empire, Frances
Berdan, The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An
Imperial Society. - Lockhart, The Nahuas after the
Conquest, 20. - Emily Umberger, “Renaissance and
Enlightenment Images of Aztec Sacrificial
S t o n e s .” - Alejandro Alcántara Gallegos,
“Los barrios de Tenochtitlan: Topografía,
organización interna y tipología de sus predios”;
Jonathan Truitt, “Nahuas and Catholicism
in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Religious Faith and
Practice and la Capilla de San Josef de los
Naturales, 1523–1700”; Richard Conway, “Lakes,
Canoes, and the Aquatic Communities of
Xochimilco and Chalco, New Spain.” - Population data from Instituto
Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, online at
http://cuentame.inegi.org.mx/monografias/
informacion/df/poblacion/. Metro data from
“Sistema de Transporte Colectivo—Metro de
la Ciudad de México,” available online at http://
http://www.metro.df.gob.mx/. - On Pantitlan, see Margarita Carballal
Staedtler and María Flores Hernández,
“El Peñón de los Baños (Tepetzinco) y sus
alrededores: Interpretaciones paleoambiéntales
y culturales de la porción noroccidental del Lago
de Texcoco,” 258–264; Bernardino de Sahagún,
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of New Spain, bk. 2, ch. 20, 43–44, and bk. 2,
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- Correlation from Domingo Francisco
de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin
Quauhtlehuanitzin, Codex Chimalpahin: Society
and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco,
Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl
in Central Mexico, ed. and trans. Arthur J. O.
Anderson and Susan Schroeder, 1:105. - Cortés, Letters from Mexico, 102.
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A Comparative Study of Total Power, 27, 59. - Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua
castillana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana,
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Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, “Historia
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2 47. - Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin, 1:87.
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New Spain, ed. and trans. Doris Heyden, 32, tells
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to where the foundation took place, in a place
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to different sources. For instance, Chimalpahin,
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(1285).
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Mexicanos,” 3:246, 249. - Chimalpahin, Codex Chimalpahin, 1:101.
The account of the foundation found in Durán,
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Julián García Zambrano, “Introducción” in
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XVI, ed. Federico Fernández Christlieb and
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Agricultural Changes in the Chinampas of
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and Aztec Urbanization in the Valley of
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35–38. - Jeffery R. Parsons, “The Aquatic
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Agricultural Changes.” - Palerm, Obras hidráulicas prehispánicas;
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la Reconstrucción de la Albarrada de San Lázaro
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históricas, ed. Edmundo O’Gorman, 1:445. A
later source credits “el tolteca amanteca [Huexo]