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Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan

Contributors:: Philip P. Arnold
Publisher:: University Press of Colorado 1999
Subjects:: Aztecs--Rites And Ceremonies
Aztecs--Land Tenure
Aztec Cosmology
Tlaloc (Aztec Deity)
Geographical Perception--Mexico--Mexico, Valley of--History

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...been inheritedfrom the colonial era. In other words, Aztec history does not stand ata distance from one's relationships...interaction with matter, all three players (the Aztec, the scholar, and the material artifact)in these...

Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise, and Fall of the Aztec Nation

Contributors:: George C. Vaillant
Publisher:: Doubleday 1962
Subjects:: Mexico--History--To 1519
Aztecs

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...careful accountsof the Aztec life and history, and Indian authors...areprecious additions to the Aztec annals. However, our chief data onIndian history come from archaeology...to Tierra del Fuego. Aztec history, like that of the

The Virgin's Children: Life in an Aztec Village Today

Contributors:: William Madsen
Publisher:: University of Texas Press 1960
Subjects:: Indians Of Mexico--Mexico, Valley Of
Indians Of Mexico--Social Life And Customs
Aztecs

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1Aztec HeritageTECOSPAN history begins with the Aztec conquest of the MilpaAlta area, recorded in 1600...entitled MalacachtepecMomoxco. Before the birth of the Aztec empire, a wealthy Aztec nobleman called Hueytlahuilanqui (Great...

The Aztec God: And Other Dramas

Contributors:: George Lansing Raymond
Publisher:: G. P. Putnams Sons 1908 (3rd edition)
Subjects:: Columbus, Christopher--Drama
Aztecs--Drama
Drama

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...wide reading andextensive preparation. The ballads overflow, not only with the general,but the very particular, truths of history."--Cincinnati Times."It may well find readers in abundance . . . for the sake of themany fine passages which it contains...

In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, Mexico

Contributors:: Eduardo de J. Douglas
Publisher:: University of Texas Press 2010
Subjects:: Nezahualcaoyotl, King of Texcoco, 1402-1472--Homes and Haunts--Mexico--Texcoco de Mora
Palaces--Mexico--Texcoco de Mora
Texcoco de Mora (Mexico)--Antiquities
Codex Xolotl
Mapa Quinatzin

Mapa Tlohtzin Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Mexico--Texcoco de Mora Aztec Art--Mexico--Texcoco de Mora Aztecs--Mexico--Texcoco de Mora--History--Sources Texcoco de Mora (Mexico)--History--Sources
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...Frances F., et al. Aztec ImperialStrategies...Bernal, Ignacio. A History of MexicanArchaeology...MorePrecise Definition of the Aztec Painting Style...2014—. [The Aztec Pictorial History ofthe Codex Mendoza...

Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs

Contributors:: H. B. Nicholson
Publisher:: University Press of Colorado 2001
Subjects:: Quetzalcoatl (Aztec Deity)
Aztec Mythology
Aztecs--History--Sources
Toltec Mythology
Toltecs--History--Sources
Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)--History And Criticism

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...A Problem in Mesoamerican Religion and History, ” in which I compared...201CThe Comparative Iconography of Aztec Style Feathered Serpents, ” at...201D in the Encylopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Nicholson1996b) and the...

Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God

Contributors:: Neil Baldwin
Publisher:: PublicAffairs 1998
Subjects:: Quetzalcoatl (Aztec Deity)
Indian Mythology--Mexico
Kukulcan
Aztec Mythology

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...according to the story in thesacred Aztec history, Anales de Cuauhtitlán...halcyonhaze, nostalgically imagined by the Aztec as theplace where Plumed Serpent...royal lords whowere the roots of Aztec nobility -- although today, allI...

Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate

Contributors:: Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher:: University of Texas Press 2007
Subjects:: Aztec Mythology
Aztec Calendar
Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Mexico
Aztecs--Rites and Ceremonies

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...AztecPainting Style. In Pre-Columbian Art History:Selected Readings, edited by Alana...California Press. 1989 Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image ofHuitzilopochtli...Peter Lang. 1992 The Aztec Pictorial History in the Codex Mendoza. In...

The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer

Contributors:: Georges Ifrah
David Bellos
E. F. Harding
Sophie Wood
Ian Monk
Publisher:: John Wiley & Sons 2000
Subjects:: Numeration--History

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...Aztec hieroglyphs,this illustration sums up Aztec history and relates the founding of the city of TenochtitlU...most part undertaken in the service of the Aztec gods—forevery aspect of Aztec history, culture, and society can only be understoodin...

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Mexico before Cortez: Art, History, Legend

Contributors:: Ignacio Bernal
Willis Barnstone
Publisher:: Doubleday 1963
Subjects:: Indians Of Mexico--Antiquities
Mexico--Antiquities
Mexico--History--To 1519

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was then that the ancient Aztec Mexicans entered, arrived...characteristic episode in all Aztec history but the one whichbest reveals their...thevalley had occupied. The brilliant Aztec leaders must haveunderstood the strategic...

inscription

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......became restricted. For the history and examples of epigraphy...Western EpigraphyOutside Western history, epigraphy was of importance...of the Maya, Toltec, and Aztec cultures (see pre-Columbian...for writing early in their history, and their inscriptions do......

archaeology

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......historical and contemporary groups. History of ArchaeologyThe discipline...society and rewritten Egyptian history were carried on in the 19th...began of the Toltec and the Aztec in Mexico and of the Inca...today is concerned with culture history (i.e., the chronology......

Hopi

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......belongs to the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock, at all their...language belongs to the Tanoan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native...Rushforth and S. Upham, A Hopi Social History (1992)....

Chapultepec

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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...Chapultepec (chäpōōl´tāpĕk´) [Aztec,=grasshopper hill], 1,600 acres...originally developed as a residence for Aztec rulers. A castle built on a hill there in...declared the castle a museum of colonial history and ethnography. Today the park includes......

Vaillant, George Clapp

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Ph.D., 1927). At the American Museum of Natural History he became associate curator (1930) and honorary curator (1941...early stages of Mexican culture and for his synthesis of Aztec history, presented in popular form in The Aztecs in Mexico......

garden

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......these techniques were combined with the already well-developed Aztec and Inca traditions. The Dutch, famous for the development...since.See also garden city.BibliographySee E. Hyams, A History of Gardens and Gardening (1971); D. Wyman, Wyman's Gardening......

Solís y Rivadeneyra, Antonio de

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......conquista de Méjico (1684), one of the finest prose works of the 17th cent. It is not considered a great history, however, as it ignores the Aztec tragedy while glorifying Cortés....

Toltec

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......Mexico c.AD 900 after the fall of Teotihuacán. Their early history is obscure but they seem to have had ancient links with the...in the 13th cent., thus opening the way for the rise of the Aztec. See also pre-Columbian art and architecture....

Tarascan

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......language has no known relation to other languages, and their history prior to the 16th cent. is poorly understood. The polity...which it successfully defended against a protracted and bloody Aztec attack in the year 1479. Their capital, Tzintzuntzán [place......

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Mexican art and architecture

Publication:: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013

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......the conquest of Cortés. For the artistic achievements of the Aztec, the Maya, and other native cultures, see pre-Columbian...making, and silver work have flourished in Mexico throughout its history, but with the coming of the Spanish to Mexico the native peoples......