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

142 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA provided an important connecting link between the Northwest Mesoamerican pe- riphery and the ...

CHAPTER 3 THE MESOAMERICAN WORLD AT SPANISH CONTACT 143 Figure 3.4 Huaxtec carved statue of an unclothed man with tatoos on one ...

144 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Box 3.2 Yopitzinco Yopitzinco, an isolated mountainous zone located in what is today the stat ...

CHAPTER 3 THE MESOAMERICAN WORLD AT SPANISH CONTACT 145 Box 3.3 The Lencas Scholars have long debated the position relative to M ...

146 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA Southeastern Central America Periphery. The southeastern periphery of Mesoamerica comprised a ...

CHAPTER 3 THE MESOAMERICAN WORLD AT SPANISH CONTACT 147 other Mesoamerican peoples in trade, political alliance, and warfare. In ...

148 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA states exploited weaker polities and interacted with one another in highly competi- tive ways ...

CHAPTER 3 THE MESOAMERICAN WORLD AT SPANISH CONTACT 149 ing in a kind of cultural “rationalization” that must have been inspired ...

150 UNIT 1 PREHISPANIC MESOAMERICA FOWLER, WILLIAMR. JR. 1989 The Cultural Evolution of An- cient Nahua Civilizations: The Pipil ...

151 CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST For three centuries, the Mesoamericans were part of a vast colonial empire rul ...

and bands of independent Christians challenged Moorish rule from their bases in mountainous northern Spain. During the ninth cen ...

CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 153 cultural land. The knights who conquered a territory would move in as its new ...

154 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA On March 30, 1492, Isabella and Ferdinand signed a decree demanding that all Jews be expelled fr ...

CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 155 might be the ultimate battle between the followers of Christ and the followers ...

156 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Also, the economic decline of Spain could be temporarily stalled by an influx of wealth from Ame ...

CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 157 with the sickness affecting healthy adults as severely as children and the eld ...

158 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA (continued) too warmly, married too young. Behaviors such as these caused people to become weak ...

CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 159 it was considered acceptable to require tribute from these new subjects. But h ...

160 UNIT 2 COLONIAL MESOAMERICA Some Spaniards, however, unwilling to settle for the increasingly limited options offered by the ...

CHAPTER 4 MESOAMERICA AND SPAIN: THE CONQUEST 161 Spanish colonists of Hispaniola. He asked them, “Are these Indians not humans? ...