Spanish colonial rule divided Mexico with a class system that still affects society today. The Spanish Conquest laid the ground for 300 years of colonial rule which made Spain the richest country in ...
As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity — and ...
The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later. 500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...
The miniseries is about how Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez defeated the Aztec empire. By John Hecht Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate) is in talks with Netflix to develop The Conquest of the ...
Woman long blamed for the fall of Aztec empire is now being viewed in a different light - She’s long be blamed for the fall ...
There was an online ruckus a few months ago when social media users got a taste of Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Iliad,” with some readers bemoaning that it sounded too modern while others ...
Archaeologists in Mexico City have found an altar dated to the decades after Spain’s 1521 conquest of the Aztec Empire’s capital, Tenochtitlán. Located in the courtyard of an Aztec home, the altar ...
The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series at ...
Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...
Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...