Conquistadors and Aztecs : a history of the fall of Tenochtitlan /
"Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily about gold and the hunt for sl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English, translated from the German. |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily about gold and the hunt for slaves. That a few hundred Spaniards destroyed the Aztec empire—and its highly developed culture—is an old chestnut, because the conquistadors, who had every means to make a profit, did not succeed alone. They encountered groups such as the Tlaxcaltecs, who suffered from Aztec rule and were ready to enter into alliances with the foreigners to overthrow their old enemy. In addition, the conquerors benefited from diseases brought from Europe, which killed hundreds of thousands of locals. Drawing on both Spanish and indigenous sources, this account of the conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521 offers a narrative of these events—including the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and the flight of the conquerors—and also represents the individual protagonists on both sides, their backgrounds, their diplomacy, and their struggles. It portrays the tens of thousands of local warriors who faced off against each other during the fighting as they attempted to free themselves from tribute payments to the Aztecs"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in German as Conquistadoren und Azteken: Cortés und die Eroberung Mexikos, by Verlag C.H. Beck, 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197552471 9780197552476 9780197552483 019755248X 9780197552490 0197552498 |