Modern-day Mexico was formed in 1521, when a 500-strong group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, alongside thousands upon thousands of indigenous Mexicans, seized control of the centre of ...

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The Aztec Empire once hosted an expansive trade network that brought volcanic glass to its capital from right across Mesoamerica, coast to coast. The largest compositional study of obsidian artifacts ...

A note on spelling and translations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water and the sacred city -- Chapter 3: The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan -- Chapter 4: The city in the conquest's wake -- ...

The Spanish conquest might have toppled the Aztec imperial state with startling speed, but unpicking precisely what ‘collapse ...

Let's turn to a story from more than 500 years ago to the Spanish conquest of Mexico. For years, the story of European dominance has been largely accepted as historical truth. But a closer look at ...

Mexico City commemorated the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked the country's indigenous Mexica people for forigveness. Speaking in front ...