Mexican History

Nora E Jaffary

• Part 1. Pre-Columbian Mexico (200-1519) * 1. Copn and Teotihuacan: Shared Culture Across a Great Distance (200-900 ce) * Image 1.1 Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, detail showing talud-tablero and the rain god * Image 1.2 Painted vessel from the Margarita tomb, Copn, in the Teotihuacan style * 2. The Popol Vuh (the Community Book): The Mythic Origins of the Quich Maya (1554-1558) * 3. Mayan Royalty and Writing (c. 667 ce) * Image 3.1 Mayan king Hanab-Pakals sarcophagus lid * 4. The Origin of the Nahuas and the Birth of the Fifth Sun (1596) * 5. A Treasury of Mexica Power and Gender (c. 1541-1542) * Image 5.1 Tribute list from Tochtepec * Image 5.2 Midwife and newborn babies * Image 5.3 Marriage ceremony * 6. Markets and Temples in the City of Tenochtitlan (1519) * 7. The Mixtec Map of San Pedro Teozacoalco (1580) * Image 7.1 The Mixtec map of San Pedro Teozacoalco * 8. The Urban Zoning of Maya Social Class in the Yucatn (1566) * 9. The Nomadic Seris of the Northern Desert (1645) Part 2. The Spanish Conquest and Christian Conversion (1519-1610) * 10. Hernn Corts and Moteucoma Meet, According to a Spanish Conqueror (1568) * 11. Moteucoma and Hernn Corts Meet, According to a Nahua Codex (c. 1555) * 12. The Nahua Interpreter Malintzin Translates for Corts and Moteucoma (1580) * Image 12.1 Malintzin translates for Corts and Moteucoma * 13. Acazitli of Tlalmanalco: Nahua Conqueror on the Mesoamerican Frontier (1541) * 14. Poetic Attempts to Justify the Conquest of Acoma, New Mexico (1610) * 15. The Tlaxcaltecas Stage a Christian Pageant Like Heaven on Earth (1538) * 16. The Spiritual Conquest: The Trial of Don Carlos Chichimecatecotl of Texcoco (1539) * 17. The Inquisition Seizes Don Carloss Estate: The Oztoticpac Map (1540) * Image 17.1 The Oztoticpac lands map of 1540 * 18. Father Fernndez Attempts to Convert the Seris of Sonora Single-handedly (1679) Part 3. The Consolidation of Colonial Government (1605-1692) * 19. The Silver Mining City of Zacatecas (1605) * 20.