Catalina Pizarro Altamirano was around 20 years old when she gave birth to the man who would later defeat and conquer the entire Aztec Empire. His name was Hernan Cortez. He was a Spanish conquistador whose explorations and conquests led him to great fame. He was born in 1485 in Medellin, a town in Western Spain which is now known as the Castilian province of Extremadura. He was born into an aristocratic family who were fairly well-known due to the fact that his father, Martin Cortez de Monroy was an officer in the Spanish Army.…
After proving himself, although he had cruel ways in some instances, he became Cortés's assistant and right hand man He was put in charge of Tenoctitlán, which is now called Mexico City, when Cortés had to go fight off Pánfilo de Narváez . While he was left in charge, the Aztecs were having a festival. He didn't want them to revolt, so he sent his men to start the fight instead. Thousands of unarmed and harmless people were killed that night. The Aztecs were mad because many of their nobles and chiefs were killed, and their things were stolen.…
The two stories Tenochitlan and Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl are different but are the same in a few ways. Tenochitlan is a story about life in Tenochitlan which is part of the Aztec’s capitol. Now, Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuat is a story about theses two volcanos Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuat which is made up and the volcanos in this story act like people. These two stories are very different but they have a few similarities. The first story is Tenochitlan, the story about the Aztec people.…
It tells the story of the crucial developing point of the Aztec culture where their “Azteca” ancestors arrived in the Basin of Mexico in the early 14th century and at that spot they saw an eagle land, and this said to them that this is the direction they needed to be going and made a shrine to their god, Huitzilopochtli. From there, the novel continues on to discuss the creation of the various cities and the complexities of the creation of this new culture from a new “Triple Alliance” of the Tezcoco, Tenochtitlan-Tlateloco, and Tlacopan who would eventually go on to become the “Mexica”…
The Spanish siege of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán is largely known today because of the written reports by of those who witnessed it. In 1521 the Spanish took over the capital city of Tenochtitlán, resulting in the ultimate demise of the Triple Alliance. Versions of this historical event tend to vary due to the array of perspectives involved. For instance, whereas Spanish solider Bernal Diaz wrote his personal account The conquest of New Spain, multiple Aztec informants, including Aztec historians Alva Ixtilixóchitl and Chimalpain, wrote different accounts which were grouped together and titled Broken Spears.…
One of their kings was Topiltzín‐Quetzalcóatl, a religious leader who in their legendary history was driven from Tula by a military faction and sailed east into the Gulf of Mexico, vowing…
The Tenochtitlan was important to the Aztec because there was where the most important ritual and ceremonial activities in Aztec life was held and it was the capital of the Aztec empire. The form of Temple Mayor was that it was a structure that stood 90 feet high consisted of two pyramids side by side on a huge platform. It was like a temple. The pyramids symbolized two sacred mountains: the Hill of Sustenance, which represented Tonacatepetl, whose patron deity was Tlaloc (the ancient god of rain) and the Hill of Coatepec, birthplace of the the Aztec war god Huitzilopotchli. The Codex Mendoza contained a simple structure most likely to symbolizes a temple, possibly an early phase of the Temple Mayor, which is h0w it is connected to the Temple Mayor.…
I have noticed that school pride is a big deal at this school. You get that feeling as soon as you walk through the doors. There are Poplar Bluff Mules, which is their mascot, all throughout the school. Each hallway is labeled by the different grade levels on them. Above the hallway there are signs that say Poplar Bluff Mules class of 2022 or 2021.…
The capitol of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan, was in existence from the year 1325 until 1521 when it was taken over by Hernan Cortez and his men. Tenochtitlan was located in the Valley of Mexico on an island in Lake Texcoco. It was estimated that the size of this city-state was 8 – 13.5 km2. Tenochtitlan wasn’t the only city-state on this island, Tlatelolco was also located here, Tenochtitlan’s sister city. Legend says that this site was chosen because Huitzlopochtli, the god of war, ordered them to look for “the prickly pear cactus and build a temple in his honor” [3].…
Carrasco productively communicated his thesis of writing this book in the preface. The first chapter is set up to assist the reader by providing a general account of the “geography and geographical imagination of the Aztec people” (xii). The author profitably assists the reader in developing an representation of the Aztecs geography by integrating a quote by Eric Wolf that states, “Mountains from the massive backbone of this land, and these mountains set off the three precincts of the Middle American citadel: a central highland in south-central Mexico, a southern highland in southern Mexico, and a southeastern highland in southeasternmost Mexico and Guatemala” (1). The reader can develop a spectacular image of the geography of the Aztecs from this quote, so Carrasco did a splendid job of describing the Aztecs geography and geographical imagination. Chapter two used vivid imagery of the “cosmic tree” and the Aztecs “four quarters” to discuss Aztecs…
The Popol Vuh, or the Popol Wuj in the K’iche, language is the story of the creation of the Maya. The Popol Vuh, meaning “Book of the Community,” narrates the Maya creation account, the tales of the Hero Twins, and the K’iche’ genealogies and land rights. The names of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explored the Mayan ruins as the two great explorers who documented the ruins from Copan in the south to Chichen Itza in the north. Spanish devastated their…
Unlike shield volcanos, this is a stratovolcano, if the magma is viscous the explosion is very dangerous. That is because gases are trapped inside the magma with a lot of pressure and when the volcano erupts those gases are released and the gases separate from the magma which cause huge ash clouds that can be very…
The Pyramid El Castillo or “The Castle” was designed to hold mythology of the Mayan people and to portray and capture astronomical features and movements. A unique part of El Castillo is that during the equinoxes every year, for about a week, it appears that there is a massive serpent flowing down the stairs. This fed into the culture of the Mayan people that their Gods were manifesting around them.…
The Popol Vuh opens by telling how the multiple Mayan gods created the Earth, everything it is composed of, and how they later create beings capable of worship. In Genesis, one God is responsible for the creation of everything, the most important being mankind. The Popol Vuh and Genesis are so similar that the Popol Vuh is sometimes thought of as a Mayan take on the Bible. The most paramount similarities are explaining the origin of humanity, illustrating the consequences for not following the rules set by the gods or of God, and the creation of everything on Earth.…
Macon is described indirectly as a volcano because he was ‘likely to erupt without prior notice’, showing his intense attitude and his obsession with being in control. In the first couple of sentences, Macon Dead is even presented in an abrupt matter that can also correlate with his personality. The women would quietly eat their sunshine cake but the stillness was broken by…