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Mexico's Colonial Past Deepened Through A New Discovery


Mexico's Colonial Past Deepened Through A New Discovery | Insights

The account is a notarized transcript of an Archbishop's tour of Mexico City to Acapulco and back from November 1687 to January 1688.

Colonial Mexico

The ancient civilizations of Mexico lasted about 2500 years. Then, in the 15th Century, a group of Spanish explorers arrived in the newly discovered continent ...

In Mexico, Aztec dig sets new records as royal mystery deepens

The information obtained from the excavations goes far beyond incomplete colonial-era accounts that were also colored by the European invaders' ...

The heavy burden of the past: the history of the conquest ... - OUP Blog

The history of the conquest of Mexico by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century remains a complex topic of discussion.

History of Mexico

Despite the political and social changes that have occurred over the centuries, evidence of past cultures and events are apparent everywhere in ...

How Aztecs Reacted to Colonial Epidemics - JSTOR Daily

In central Mexico, the descendants of the Aztecs (also known as the Nahua) produced the largest corpus of colonial-era indigenous writings in ...

Mexico's colonial and early postcolonial state-formation: A political ...

In this sense, state-formation depends on the global division of labour, and, thereby, colonial Mexico was formed –systematically and hierarchically– as a ...

500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...

"The image we have of the Aztecs was overwhelmingly invented by Spaniards at the time," says Restall. "They used it to not only justify the ...

Colonial Mexico 1519 - 1821 MexicanHistory.org Mexican history ...

For almost 300 years after 1521, Mexico was a colony of Spain and known as La Nueva España or New Spain. It was the crown jewel in Spains holdings in the New ...

Writings on Colonial Mexico | Hispanic American Historical Review

But each new method and each new concept had to be made congruent with the known colonial Mexican ambiente. Applied to the body of information ...

Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution - Adam Matthew Digital

Mexico in History is an essential resource illuminating the country's past, from Spanish contact with Indigenous communities, through colonial rule, ...

Struggling for Freedom in Colonial Mexico | History Workshop

When scrutinizing petitions filed before Spanish colonial courts in Mexico between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, we encounter a great ...

The Discovery & Earliest Explorations of Baja California

The discovery and exploration of the Gulf of California was a by-product of the personal and economic factors motivating the sixteenth century Spanish soldier- ...

First Encounters: The Conquest and Colonization of Mexico

Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers conquered Mexico in 1521, just two years after they landed near the modern-day city of Veracruz.

Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of · The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean ...

Spanish Colonization - OER Commons

The establishment of New Spain meant that the Spanish military was centered in the newly named Mexico City, as were the royal courts and justice buildings, ...

Mexico in the Seventeenth Century: Transition of a Colonial Society

Located on the isthmus bridge of New Spain, Mexico City was at the center of the east-west route which joined the Atlantic and the Pacific, ...

In Mexico There Are No Mexicans: Decolonization and ... - YouTube

New Spain became Mexico virtually overnight, in ... colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American history, with an emphasis on Mexico.

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern ...

Both Mexico and Brazil are former European colonies with vast territories ... in new fossil discoveries by local people. An example of a problem ...

Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in ...

The archive helped inspire an emerging nationalism at a crucial juncture in Latin American history, as Creoles and indigenous peoples appropriated the history ...