The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

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iii Contents PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION 1 UNIT I PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA 38 CHAPTER 1 ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN CIVI ...

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vii Preface Once again we invite our readers to share the urgency and passion that we feel toward the con- tents of this second ...

Church policy in America but also the very foundations of Western ideas about human nature, carried in their wake nothing less t ...

mony begins with the glyphic texts and calendrical notations that date from the Late Formative period (400 B.C. to A.D. 200) and ...

the world that North Americans live in. Indeed, some of the most familiar tastes and sights that make up the everyday lives of N ...

grant group in this country. All of this leads to the obvious conclusion that ancient and mod- ern Mesoamericans have long been ...

xii List of Figures Figure A.1 The island city of Tenochtitlán at the time of Spanish contact. p. 4 Figure A.2 Map showing the t ...

Figure 1.14 Stela A at the Classic-period Mayan city of Copan, Honduras. p. 70 Figure 1.15 The Epiclassic-period fortified, hill ...

xiv LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.8 The siege of Tenochtitlán. p. 174 Figure 4.9 Fighting in the city streets: Mexican warriors unhor ...

Figure 6.15 A page from the Codex Badianus. p. 238 Figure 6.16 A page from an eighteenth-century “primordial title,” from a Nahu ...

Figure 11.4 The long count dates on Abaj Takalik Stela 5. p. 437 Figure 12.1 Pakal receives the divine crownship from his mother ...

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xviii LIST OF BOXES UNIT II COLONIAL MESOAMERICA CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST The Origins of Spanish Imperiali ...

1 Introduction The Spanish explorers and conquistadors who first made contact with the Mesoamer- ican world were surprised by it ...