Cortés and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire

Cortés and the Downfall of the Aztec Empire
Author: Jon Manchip White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1971
Genre: Mexico
ISBN:

Parallels the historical backgrounds and human motivations of the Spaniards and Aztecs, as they grapple in the life-and-death battle for the Aztec Empire.

Fifth Sun

Fifth Sun
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190673060

Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195330838

Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

Aztec

Aztec
Author: Gary Jennings
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765392178

Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves---a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and fall. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Sad Night

The Sad Night
Author: Sally Schofer Mathews
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780618117451

A picture book that introduces the Aztecs, their cities, and the dramatic confrontation between Montezuma and Cortes. Tells how the Aztecs established an empire in Mexico and what happened when they, led by Montezuma, encountered Cortés and the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century. An account of the establishment of the Aztec empire in Mexico and of the terrible battle between the Aztecs and the Spaniards known as the Sad Night.

Organization of the Aztec Empire

Organization of the Aztec Empire
Author: Stanford Mc Krause
Publisher: Brainy Bookstore Mckrause
Total Pages: 78
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN:

Aztec society was divided into twenty clans called calpullis, where religion exerted a predominant influence, which consisted of groups of people connected by kinship, territorial divisions, the invocation of a particular god and continuation of ancient families linked by a kinship bond. biological and religious that derived from the cult of the titular god. Each clan had lands, a temple and a chief or calpullec. They were divided into three classes; Nobles, ordinary people and slaves.

Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan
Author: José León Sánchez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2001
Genre: Tenochtitlán, Battle of, Mexico City, Mexico, 1521
ISBN:

Children of the Sun

Children of the Sun
Author: Elizabeth Manson Bahr
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783333480

Children of the Sun is an epic retelling of the Conquest of Mexico from the Aztec point of view, and a breath-taking story of courage and loyalty, treachery and deceit. Peopled with a huge cast of characters from the agonised Emperor himself and his headstrong daughter to the enigmatic conquistador Hernan Cortes, this is a richly imagined recreation of one of history's most extraordinary civilisations and a heart-breaking lament for its fall.