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500 years later, Mexico still struggles with 'uneasy truths' about the Spanish conquest

As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow Mexicans and others to confront their national identity — and ...
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500 years after Cortes’ conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico’s Indigenous roots live on

This month marks 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlán, the grand city of the Mexicas, what the Aztecs called themselves. Historians and other scholars have yet to agree fully on the devastating ...
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500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated

The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later. 500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...
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Mexico builds replica Aztec temple to mark 500 years since Spanish conquest

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation’s most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish ...
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The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs

User-Created Clip by tgrane August 30, 2019 2016-10-08T20:01:42-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7fa/20161008200322003_hd.jpgYale professor emeritus John Demos ...
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The cost of courage in Aztec society : essays on Mesoamerican society and culture / Inga Clendinnen

The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...
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500th anniversary of Aztec conquest exposes cultural wounds in Mexico

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country's indigenous Mexica people to forgive the nation for the abuses they suffered during the 1521 conquest. Hector Vivas/Getty Images ...
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LACMA exhibitition re-examines narrative of Spanish conquest over Mexico

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is marking the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan with an exhibition that aims to subvert the traditional ...
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Dancing the new world : Aztecs, Spaniards, and the choreography of conquest / Paul A. Scolieri

"From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the "Indian" ...
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Op-Ed: 500 years after Cortés' conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico's Indigenous roots live on

A bust of the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, with images of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl on the surrounding buildings, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of ...
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Mexico builds replica Aztec temple to mark 500 years since Spanish conquest

Mexico is building a towering replica of the Templo Mayor, the Aztec civilisation's most sacred site, in the downtown of Mexico City to mark 500 years since the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital, ...