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A [sic] Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (28 clicks)

Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion & Political Control(2174 clicks)
Reviewed by C. Chase-Dunn.

Building Cortés's fleet of Brigantines.(1674 clicks)
from the Durán Codex, 1521. Engraving.

BURIED MIRROR. CONFLICT OF THE GODS. TRANSCRIPT(1840 clicks)
Good account of the encounter and the conquest.

End of an Empire: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico(2180 clicks)
From the Concord Review

Estévanico the Moor(1526 clicks)
"Tales of the adventures that befell three conquistadores and their Moorish slave during the sixteenth century led to Spain's Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's exploration of what is now the American Southwest." By Anne B. Allen

Fighting in Mexico-Tenochtitlan(1747 clicks)
Florentine Codex, (July-August 1521), Volume III, fol. 465.

Hernán Cortés and the Conquest(2048 clicks)
Nice pictures. Links.

Hernando Cortés on the Web(837 clicks)

Megadeath in Mexico(555 clicks)
Discover Magazine Issues Feb-06 features Megadeath in Mexico Megadeath in Mexico Epidemics followed the Spanish arrival in the New World, but the worst killer may have been a shadowy native—a killer that could still be out there. By Bruce Stutz DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 02 | February 2006 | Anthropology

Miguel León Portilla, Visión de los Vencidos(1689 clicks)
The conquest told from the victims' viewpoint. This is a classic work.

Moctezuma's Greeting to Hernan Cortes(1843 clicks)
Part of a lesson on the conquest.

Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico(1678 clicks)
An 1843 book which is very readable but not authoritative. The author had never been to Mexico.

The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico(1992 clicks)
Excellent account

The Conquest of Mexico(535 clicks)
American Historical Association Digital History Project

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