Tenochtitlan

Author : José Luis de Rojas
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813059464

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Tenochtitlan by José Luis de Rojas Pdf

Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire before the Spanish conquest, rivaled any other great city of its time. In Europe, only Paris, Venice, and Constantinople were larger. Cradled in the Valley of Mexico, the city is unique among New World capitals in that it was well-described and chronicled by the conquistadors who subsequently demolished it. This means that, though centuries of redevelopment have frustrated efforts to access the ancient city’s remains, much can be told about its urban landscape, politics, economy, and religion. While Tenochtitlan commands a great deal of attention from archaeologists and Mesoamerican scholars, very little has been written about the city for a non-technical audience in English. In this fascinating book, eminent expert José Luis de Rojas presents an accessible yet authoritative exploration of this famous city--interweaving glimpses into its inhabitants’ daily lives with the broader stories of urbanization, culture, and the rise and fall of the Aztec empire.

Author : Leonardo López Luján
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0826329586

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The Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan by Leonardo López Luján Pdf

The spectacular findings of the historic Templo Mayor Project, which took place in the heart of Mexico City from 1978 to 1997.

Author : Francisco Mata Rosas
Publisher : Ediciones Era
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9684116330

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México-Tenochtitlan by Francisco Mata Rosas Pdf

"These photographs are a testimony of the living cultural manifestation that also highlight the imaginary thinking of the underdogs: those defeated by the conquest were not freed by the War of Independence, nor redeemed by the revolution, nor were they included in development and technology, those who have not achieved any other place in the recently inaugurated, vacillating democracy, and whose desolation these photographs do not attempt to hide. Despite the critical awareness that leads the photographer to insist on a certain sense of humor, the constant is a skeptical, if not stoically fatalistic, reading--The insistent melancholy of the archetype / Eduardo Vázquez Martín

Author : Leonardo Lopez Lujan,Judith N. Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195178517

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Tenochtitlan by Leonardo Lopez Lujan,Judith N. Levin Pdf

Buried beneath modern Mexico City lie the remnants of a nearly 700-year old city that the Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes described as the most beautiful in the world. During the time of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan was located in the middle of a shining blue lake and was home to more than 200,000 people. Tenochtitlan was bigger, cleaner, and more elegantly laid out than any European city of its time. The Spanish, fearful of a religion that included human sacrifice, tried to destroy any evidence of this magnificent city. They eventually conquered Tenochtitlan, and Mexico City quickly grew in its place. Archaeologists typically discover the remains of a city and then try to learn about its culture. With Tenochtitlan, archaeologists were faced with the opposite task. Through thousands of documents, historians knew about the culture, people, and buildings of Tenochtitlan; they just needed to uncover the city. In 1790, workers paving the main plaza of Mexico City found their first clue: a three-ton statue of a goddess wearing a skirt of rattlesnakes. But it was not until the discovery of the Great Temple in 1978 that archaeologists could start a true, long-term excavation of Tenochtitlan. Archaeologists have since found more than 9,000 artifacts and evidence of numerous buildings. In this book, Leonardo Lopez Lujan, who has been excavating Tenochtitlan since 1980, and co-author Judy Levin uncover the culture and history of Tenochtitlan that the Spanish tried so hard to destroy.

Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477317136

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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City by Barbara E. Mundy Pdf

Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." But was it? Drawing on period representations of the city in sculptures, texts, and maps, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City builds a convincing case that this global capital remained, through the sixteenth century, very much an Amerindian city. Barbara E. Mundy foregrounds the role the city's indigenous peoples, the Nahua, played in shaping Mexico City through the construction of permanent architecture and engagement in ceremonial actions. She demonstrates that the Aztec ruling elites, who retained power even after the conquest, were instrumental in building and then rebuilding the city. Mundy shows how the Nahua entered into mutually advantageous alliances with the Franciscans to maintain the city's sacred nodes. She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city's extraordinary waterworks—the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century—to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City.

Author : Si Sheppard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472820198

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Tenochtitlan 1519–21 by Si Sheppard Pdf

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like a jewel in the midst of Lake Texcoco. This encounter brought together cultures that had hitherto evolved in complete isolation from each other – Catholic Spain and the Aztec Empire. What ensued was the swift escalation from a clash of civilizations to a war of the worlds. At the conclusion of the Conquistador campaign of 1519–21, Tenochtitlan lay in ruins, the last Aztec Emperor was in chains, and Spanish authority over the native peoples had been definitively asserted. With the colourful personalities – Cortés, Malinche, Pedro Alvarez, Cuitláhuac, Cuauhtémoc – driving the narrative, and the vivid differences in uniforms, weapons, and fighting styles between the rival armies (displayed using stunning specially commissioned artwork), this is the fascinating story of the collapse of the Aztec Empire.

Author : Delia Cosentino,Adriana Zavala
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781477326992

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Resurrecting Tenochtitlan by Delia Cosentino,Adriana Zavala Pdf

"Resurrecting Tenochtitlan considers the ways in which artists, city planners, architects, and intellectuals in Mexico shaped the evolution of Mexico City's civic identity in the first half of the twentieth century. Long forgotten and assumed to have been completely destroyed during the Spanish conquest, layers of the remnants of Tenochtitlan were discovered in the middle of a drainage project augmented under the longtime president Porfirio Díaz. As the cityscape changed in the wake of the ends of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution, the city's layers of history were uncovered to find the remnants of the Aztec capitol of Tenochtitlan, which stirred imaginings of a new and modern Mexican capital and nation that still drew from its ancient history. Tying the modern city to the ancient one was also a way in which intellectuals articulated a mestizo cultural identity. This discovery led to the renewed interest in 16th-century maps by artists, architects, and city planners to understand the ways in which the Aztec capital intersected with the beginnings of Spanish settlement over it. The manuscript examines how artists such as Juan O'Gorman and Diego Rivera drew from the recent work of archaeologists to render panoramic depictions of both the modern Mexican and the Aztec capital to visualize it for public audiences. And while not strictly chronological in its organization, it looks at how attitudes toward modern Mexico City's ties to Tenochtitlan shaped national identity and shifted over time. The authors' timeframe ends with the inauguration of Diego Rivera's long-planned Anahuacalli Museum, which was created with the support of the National Museum of Anthropology to display pre-Columbian artifacts. Its completion, after Rivera's death, was met with the first waves of the youth cultures in Mexico whose disinterest in and suspicion toward state-sponsored national projects signaled the beginning of the collapse of these ideas"--

Author : Emily Mahoney
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538237656

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20 Fun Facts About Tenochtitlán by Emily Mahoney Pdf

The ancient Aztecs are one of the most fascinating civilizations our world has ever seen, and their capital city of Tenochtitlan is just as interesting. Facts about the size of the city, its citizens, and daily life around the city will wow readers, and graphic organizers and pictures help readers to understand what it was like to live in Tenochtitlan in the 1300s to the 1500s. Take your readers on a trip back in time to learn all about this ancient city, its takeover by Spanish conquistadors, and its eventual decline.

Author : Frances F. Berdan
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0884022110

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Aztec Imperial Strategies by Frances F. Berdan Pdf

Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, "Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History."

Author : Steve Cory
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822532123

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Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Mexico City by Steve Cory Pdf

A historical exploration of events and daily life in Mexico City in both ancient and modern times.

Author : Richard L. Fricker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010531165

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Passage to Tenochtitlán by Richard L. Fricker Pdf

Author : Susan E. Alcock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521770203

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Empires by Susan E. Alcock Pdf

Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers in ways quite different from other, non-imperial societies. Appearing in all parts of the globe, and in many different epochs, empires invite comparative analysis - yet few attempts have been made to place imperial systems within such a framework. This book brings together studies by distinguished scholars from diverse academic traditions, including anthropology, archaeology, history and classics. The empires discussed include case studies from Central and South America, the Mediterranean, Europe, the Near East, South East Asia and China, and range in time from the first millennium BC to the early modern era. The book organises these detailed studies into five thematic sections: sources, approaches and definitions; empires in a wider world; imperial integration and imperial subjects; imperial ideologies; and the afterlife of empires.

Author : Henry B. Nicholson,Eloise Quiñones Keber,National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049730974

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Art of Aztec Mexico by Henry B. Nicholson,Eloise Quiñones Keber,National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf

Most of the 86 objects of stone, clay, metal, wood, mosaic, and feathers had been excavated recently at the site of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City.

Author : David Carrasco
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195379389

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The Aztecs by David Carrasco Pdf

Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.

Author : Alfred Louis Deverdun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Mexico City (Mexico)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018454068

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The True Mexico, Mexico-Tenochtitlan by Alfred Louis Deverdun Pdf