The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition
162 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Charles V, troubled by the assertions of Las Casas and Vitoria, summoned a group of theologians ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 163 colonial rule were often ignored by the colonists who were supposed to enforce ...
164 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA the same time, the native peoples were envied for their (presumed) freedom from some of the rest ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 165 omens and prophecies helped them, after the fact, to justify their own defeat. ...
Box 4.2 La Malinche La Malinche today is a figure of folklore. On the one hand, she is detested as a traitor of her peo- ple and ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 167 Figure 4.3 Motecuhzoma’s emissaries present gifts to Cortés. To Cortés’s left ...
168 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA While the native people wondered who the Spaniards were, the Spaniards them- selves were beset w ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 169 Figure 4.4 Two of Tlaxcala’s four principal lords declare their alliance with ...
170 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 4.5 The first meeting between Motecuhzoma and Cortés. The native artist highlights the cr ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 171 Figure 4.6 The noche triste.The Spaniards, with their Tlaxcalan allies, begin ...
172 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 4.7 The smallpox epidemic. A woman, possibly a doctor, attempts to comfort a sick man; ot ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 173 tive history of the conquest, as well as other native documents and an importa ...
174 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 4.8 The siege of Tenochtitlan. The Spaniards attack from their ships, while Mexica soldie ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 175 Figure 4.9 Fighting in the city streets: Mexica warriors unhorse and kill a Sp ...
176 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA an independent polity that had successfully resisted every attempt by the Aztecs to impinge upon ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 177 achieved some military success, their failure to establish a Spanish community ...
178 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Figure 4.10 Conquest of Quetzaltenango, the place where the K’iche’ Mayan leader, Tekum, was kil ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 179 Box 4.3 The Death of Tekum The account to follow is based on a Spanish version ...
180 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Mayas fleeing Spanish rule in the northern part of the peninsula. In fact, the move- ment of peo ...
CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 181 SUGGESTED READINGS CLENDINNEN, INGA 1987 Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spania ...
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