- Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
In 1519, Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico, and made his way to the Aztec capital. The Modern History Sourcebook offers gathered Aztec accounts, some of which were written shortly after the conquest.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html
- Cortés, Hernán@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Explorers/Cortes__Hernan__1485_1547_
- Mexican Independence
Information on the people and events that led to freedom from Spain. Mexican Independence explains how Texas became part of an independent Mexico and the "Lone Star" of hope for a second democratic, multi-cultural Federal Republic in America.
www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mexicanrev.htm
- Hernan Cortés: From Second Letter to the Emperor Charles V, 1520
Features Hernan Cortés' description of the Aztec capital, written in his Second Letter to Charles V (1520). From the Modern History Sourcebook.
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1520cortes.html
- Mexico's Colonial Era
From Spanish conquistadors to the Spanish Hapsburgs. Provides historical background on Mexico's colonial era and the settlement of New Spain.
www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpcolonial1.html
- Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, The
Article by Shep Lenchek describing Aztec accounts of the conquest of Mexico that survived as the Codex Florentino.
www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/slenchek/slaztec1.html
- The Mapas Project
Collection of colonial Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts that show the territories or landscapes of New Spain's indigenous communities. From the University of Oregon.
mapas.uoregon.edu
- End of an Empire: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
(PDF)
Focuses on the expansionist policies of both the Aztec and Spanish empires and on the clash caused by the arrival of Hernan Cortés.
www.tcr.org/tcr/essays/Web_Conquest.pdf
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