Huitzilopochtli

Summary In Miguel Leon-Portilla’s The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, the author shares the Aztec account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1519. Throughout the book, Portilla discusses the significant events that occurred in the Aztec society. The indigenous groups in Mexico such as the Mexica (Aztec) had a thriving culture and advanced society in ancient Mesoamerica. The people of the Aztec society were educated, studied many subjects of interest such as…

The museum that I chose to go was to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which was holding an exhibition that was dedicated to Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time. The piece that stood out to me the most was Pre-Columbian America by Diego Rivera that features indigenous imagery and creates an alternative view of America. The piece itself was made with oil on canvas with bright colors, which features many scenes that depicts the daily lives of the…

Who were the people that discovered North America? How did they get here and why did the come? Approximately 30,000 years ago, small groups of Paleolithic hunters and food gatherers began to migrate toward North America from Asia. The migration of these people took place when temperatures dropped greatly from what they had been. This was known as the Ice Age. During the Ice Age, a great amount of water froze into thick sheets, which caused the sea level to drop. The exposed a land bridge between…

While presenting a lecture on the “Danger of a Single Story” in a 2009 Ted Talk in London England, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie remarked that if a people are shown as one thing, over and over again, that is what they become. For centuries the conquest of Mexico and the fall of the Aztec empire has been a single story told through only European accounts. In The Broken Spears Miguel León-Portilla provides an account of the first arrival of European colonizers through a collection of codices authored…

In 1116, the Aztec Empire began their two hundred year odyssey. Legend says that the Aztecs’ Sun god, Huitzilopochtli, gave them their journey. The Aztec people felt they were chosen to maintain the cosmos. They were chosen to be sure the sun had enough energy to travel across the sky and make certain the earth had enough nutrition to support their crops. They felt the way to do this was through blood offerings. To the Aztecs, the heart was the most valuable thing a mortal could offer the gods.…

Cortes left the city under the rule of Pedro de Alvarado. Pedro de Alvarado started the Massacre of the Great Temple, by allowing the citizens and soldiers to have the Fiesta of Huitzilopochtli, and spent two days celebrating and covering the statue of their god in Gold and Jewels. Alvarado used this fiesta to massacre thousands of citizens and soldiers who were unarmed. This massacre prompted a city wide rebellion that neither the Spanish…

An assignment was given to me that had me decide on whether historians should emphasize Sacrifice or Agriculture and I didn’t agree with the fact that I had to choose. Historians shouldn’t have to pick one topic, they should be able to emphasize on both equally, without one or the other the Aztecs wouldn’t be who they were, and we might not have known about them because what they did just wasn’t important enough. The Aztecs were a very large group of people and they needed a place to live, so…

Aztecs The Aztecs were one of the most historic figures in the 13th century to the mid-15th century. In the paper I will discuss where they came from, there religion, where they ruled, and most importantly their life style and how they ended. The Aztecs originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico, arrived in Mesoamerica around the beginning of the 13th century. From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs emerged as one of the most dominant force in central Mexico,…

cultural aspects of their society such as economic security, social mobility, education, and war. Aztecs placed heavy emphasis on war in their religion. It is no surprise that the leader of the gods they worshipped was a young war god, named Huitzilopochtli, who symbolized the sun at high noon. In order to gain favor with the gods…

1. Where, and at what time period did the Aztec Civilization exist? Where and what time period In 1110-1248 the first of the Aztecs searched for a place to stay. It is said that their god Huitzilopochtli told them to settle were they see an eagle eating a snake on a cactus. They roamed for ages until 1325 when they spotted the eagle eating a snake on a cactus in Tenochtitlan. Timeline 1110-1248- The Aztecs traveled Mexico to find a location to settle 1325- they settled in Tenochtitlan 1350-…