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The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Yale professor emeritus John Demos explained the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs by Conquistador Hernán Cortés. He spoke about the advantages that the ...
The Guardian

Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show

Analysis of gold bar published a few months before 500th anniversary of battle that forced Cortés to beat a temporary retreat A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar found decades ago in ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated

The meeting of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II and Hernán Cortés and the events that followed weigh heavily in Mexico half a millennium later. 500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being ...
Daily Mail

Cannibal Aztecs fattened up their Spanish conquistador prisoners for several months before EATING them in sacrifices that recreated mythological scenes

Dismembered bodies of 'fattened-up' Spanish conquistadors, women and toddlers were eaten by their cannibalistic Aztec captors, research reveals. The bodies of more than 450 people were found at the ...
MercoPress

Gold bar, evidence of Spanish plundering of Aztec empire 500 years ago

A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar found decades ago in downtown Mexico City reveals it was part of the plunder Spanish conquerors tried to carry away as they fled the Aztec capital after ...
Los Angeles Times

Aztecs Tortured, Ate Spaniards, Bones Show

CALPULALPAN, Mexico — Skeletons found at an archeological site show that Aztecs captured, sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520. The ...
Daily Mail

Mexico marks the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital where Spanish-led forces destroyed a sophisticated city and killed countless indigenous people

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 ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

500 Years Later, The Spanish Conquest Of Mexico Is Still Being Debated

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between massive ...