A History of Latin America
24 CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT AMERICA themselves in battle. Originally assigned for life, these lands tended to become fi efs that were h ...
THE AZTECS OF MEXICO 25 Tenochtitlán to be offered up on the altars of the gods. In addition, periodic tribute payments of maize ...
26 CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT AMERICA populations, and other integrative policies. Re- cently, however, it has been argued that rather th ...
THE AZTECS OF MEXICO 27 and astrology, and training in history through the study of the Xiuhamatl(Books of the Years). The tla- ...
28 CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT AMERICA transactions; a merchants’ court sat to hear and settle disputes between buyers and sellers. As the ...
THE INCAS OF PERU 29 fore him. Barefoot, with their eyes on the ground, they approached the basketry throne of their king. Mocte ...
30 CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT AMERICA This advance seems to have been associated with progress in agriculture, especially the greater use ...
THE INCAS OF PERU 31 tive precedents for conquest and the consolidation of conquest through a variety of political and socioeco- ...
32 CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT AMERICA vanced practices of irrigation, terracing, and fertil- ization among conquered peoples of more prim ...
THE INCAS OF PERU 33 tual aid in agricultural tasks, in the construction of dwellings, and in other projects of a private or pub ...
34 CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT AMERICA able-bodied commoners between certain ages were subject to military service. No trace of socialism ...
THE INCAS OF PERU 35 INCA RELIGION AND LEARNING The Inca state religion existed side by side with the much older ancestor cults ...
FOCUS QUESTIONS How did conquest affect the development of the Iberian Peninsula in the ancient world? What were the Castilian ...
THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE OF IBERIA’S CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS 37 a small admixture of Germanic terms, and in ad- ministration, it followe ...
38 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND had created unimaginable confl icts that exhausted scarce resources and slowed its imperial ...
THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE OF IBERIA’S CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS 39 phase, added a strong sense of religious superiority and mission. The Re ...
40 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND over three states—Aragón, Valencia, and Catalo- nia—each regarded as a separate reino (king ...
FERDINAND AND ISABELLA: THE CATHOLIC SOVEREIGNS 41 became a remarkable career of domestic progress and imperial expansion. Ferdi ...
42 CHAPTER 2 THE HISPANIC BACKGROUND corregidores into the towns. These offi cials com- bined administrative and judicial functi ...
FERDINAND AND ISABELLA: THE CATHOLIC SOVEREIGNS 43 interests. To their court they summoned Italian hu- manists like Alessandro G ...
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