Our tongue-in-cheek cartoon above comes courtesy of and thanks to Viv Quillin...
NB Please note that we have several features relating to life in Mexico for the Nahuas after the Spanish invasion in other parts of the website; check for instance our ‘Ask Us’ section...
A few years ago the BBC recorded a discussion on the Siege of Tenochtitlan for the Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ series. Two of the panellists are on our Panel of Experts. Link below...
Central section of a screen mural by Roberto Cueva del Río
the concha guitar and the armadillo?
quincentennial of the Spanish invasion of Mexico
quincentennial of the Spanish invasion of Mexico
of the Spanish invasion of Mexico...
and the preservation of memory
of Africans in the Americas...?
of Mesoamerca prior to the Spanish invasion...
Mictlan - turning it into a place of torment...
see just how wide it was in 1550s New Spain...!
ended up branded as charlatans by the Spanish...
who survived through a time of great crisis...
on the impact of the Spanish invasion...
- the perspective of women...
were judged ‘razor-sharp’ by Europeans
a ‘failure of basic understanding’...
on the Aztecs & the Spanish Conquest
for GCSE: Part Two
- arguments and controversies...
‘Spanish-Aztec War’...
mostly through politics and diplomacy...
‘in mouths that sing the glories of men and gods...’
decide to build an Aztec pyramid?
if the Aztecs had defeated the Spanish?
for Mexican gold in our museums...
became Christians in the sixteenth century...
the ‘Stranger Effect’...
to the violence of spiritual as well as military conquest...
survive the Spanish Conquest?
realise that Cortés was not a god?’
to reach Tenochtitlan in 1519...
how the Aztecs viewed the Spanish invaders
a study in survival...
a study in survival - Conclusion
after the Spanish Conquest? (2)
after the Spanish Conquest? (2) - Conclusion
of their impending doom?