Download or read book See Inside an Aztec Town written by Cottie Arthur Burland and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations describe the history and culture of the Aztecs, once the most powerful civilization in Central America.
Download or read book See Inside an Aztec Town written by Cottie Arthur Burland and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations describe the history and culture of the Aztecs, once the most powerful civilization in Central America.
Download or read book See inside an Aztec town written by R. J. Unstead and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virgin s Children written by William Madsen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume. Focusing on San Francisco Tecospa—a village of some eight hundred Indians who still spoke Nahuatl, whose lives were dominated by supernaturalism, and who observed with only slight modification much of their Aztec heritage—this story bears out the anthropological principle that innovations are most likely to be accepted when they are useful, communicable, and compatible with established tradition. Nowhere is the Indian genius for combining the old and the new better exemplified than in the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe came to fulfill the role formerly played by the pagan goddess Tonantzin and of how Christian saints replaced the Aztec gods. At the time of this study, the Tecospans still called the Catholic Virgin Tonantzin, but their concept of the mother goddess had changed profoundly since Aztec times. Tonantzin the Pagan, a hideous goddess with claws on her hands and feet and with snakes entwining her face, wore a necklace of hearts, hands, and skulls to represent her insatiable appetite for corpses. Tonantzin the Catholic—also called Guadalupe—is a beautiful and benevolent mother deity who repeatedly stays God’s anger against her Mexican children and answers the prayers of the poorest Indian, with no thought of return. In Tecospa the road to social recognition lay in the performance of religious works, and the neglect of ritual obligation subjected both the individual and the community to the anger of supernaturals who punished with illness or other misfortune. Religion was inextricably a part of every phase of life, and it is the whole life of the Aztecan that is recorded here: fiesta, clothing, food, agricultural practices, courtship, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, death, witchcraft and its cures, medical practices and attitudes, houses and home life, ethics, and the hot-cold complex that classifies everything in the Tecospan universe from God to Bromo-Seltzer. With a marked simplicity of style and language William Madsen has produced a profoundly significant anthropological study that is delightful reading from the first sentence to the last. The drawings, the work of a ten-year-old Tecospan lad, are remarkable for their penetrating insight into the culture.
Download or read book Life Among the Aztec written by Rachel Stuckey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What brought about the downfall of the Aztec Empire? The answer to this question is waiting for readers to discover as they learn fun facts about the Aztec people and explore common social studies curriculum topics. Readers learn fun and fascinating facts about Aztec life—from their religious beliefs to the sports they played. This information is presented through accessible main text and additional fact boxes. Colorful maps allow readers to develop their geography skills as they see where the Aztec Empire was located. Historical images and contemporary photographs help readers place themselves among the Aztec.
Download or read book La Capital written by Jonathan Kandell and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Mexico City from the Aztec empire to the present day.
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Download or read book Montezuma II written by Elizabeth Schulz and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth Aztec emperor, Montezuma was a leader and army commander who is known for his eventual defeat at the hands of Hernán Cortés. Students will gain a greater knowledge of the Aztec Empire, learn about the successes and failures of Montezuma's reign, and explore how he came into power, how he was defeated, and finally, the repercussions of his defeat.
Download or read book Aztec City state Capitals written by Michael Ernest Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the thirteenth century until the Spanish conquest in 1521. Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. Aztec City-State Capitals is the first work to focus attention outside Tenochtitlan, revealing these dozens of smaller cities to have been the central hubs of political, economic, and religious life, integral to the grand infrastructure of the Aztec empire. Focusing on building styles, urban townscapes, layouts, and designs, Michael Smith combines two archaeological approaches: monumental (excavations of pyramids, palaces, and public buildings) and social (excavations of houses, workshops, and fields). As a result, he is able to integrate the urban-built environment and the lives of the Aztec peoples as reconstructed from excavations. Smith demonstrates the ways in which these city-state capitals were different from Tenochtitlan and convincingly argues that urban design is the direct result of decisions made by political leaders to legitimize their own power and political roles in the states of the Aztec empire.
Download or read book Creating Connections written by Betty P. Cleaver and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conquistador written by Buddy Levy and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitlán Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.
Download or read book Lost Temple of the Aztecs written by Shelley Tanaka and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the discovery of the temple in Mexico City, what was once the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, to introduce the story of the Spanish conquest of Moctezuma and his empire in the sixteenth century.
Download or read book Excavations at Cihuatecpan an Aztec Village in the Teotihuacan Valley written by Susan Toby Evans and published by Vanderbilt University Press (TN). This book was released on 1988 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 1980 Census of Housing written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1980 census of population written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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