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In 1519, Hernan Cortes arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. In Tenochtitlan, the City of Dreams, Cortes met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of a complex and sophisticated civilization with fifteen million people,...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Following in the footsteps of the Spanish adventurers, filmmaker Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernan Cortés, and Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the events that accompanied the epic sixteenth-century Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. He also follows parts of Orellana's extraordinary...
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English
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In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, linked to a Spanish nun who had the power to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, journalist Carlos Albert stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent in Spain founded by this same legendary...
15) The captive
Author
Series
Julian Escobar series volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1979]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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"A young Spaniard sets off for South America in 1518 with Cortes and the Conquistadors...during his travels he falls in love with Ignacia, a native woman who introduces him to the secrets of the most delicious drink he has ever tasted: chocolate...He later discovers that his lover had secretly added the elixir to life to his chocolate drink. This allows him to travel through history"--Jacket
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Illustrated study of Montezuma II, the spiritual, civil, and military leader of the Aztec people, with information on his nation and its demise at the hands of Spanish conquistadors, and discussion of Aztec art, architecture, food, fashion, politics, people, and customs.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Uses the discovery of the temple in Mexico City, what was the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, to introduce the story of the Spanish conquest of Moctezuma and his empire in the sixteenth century.