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Conquest: Mexico (October 9, 1997)
Conquest: Mexico, 1518-1530: Outline
From the Indies to Mexico, - 1519
Conquest of Tenochtitlan, 1519-1521
“Why was a people so resolute and so resourceful defeated by a band of adventurers?”
Routes of Conquest: Cortes, 1519 Pizarro, 1531 Jimenez de Quesada, 1536 Mendoza, 1536 Valdivia, 1540
From the Indies to Mexico, - 1519
Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba expedition, Feb. 1517: 3 ships, 110 soldiers
Juan de Grijalva, May 1518: 4 ships, 200 soldiers
Hernan Cortes, April 1519: 11 ships, 450 soldiers
Panfilo de Narvaez, May 1520
Route of Cortes, 1519-1520
Conquest of Tenochtitlan, 1519-1521
Role of Malintzin: diplomacy
Manipulation of Mexica enemies (Cempoala, Tlaxcala, Cholula)
Capture the leader: Montezuma
The defeat of the “sad night” (June 30, 1520)
Blockade: May-Aug. 21, 1521
Hernan Cortes
Malintzin (Doña Mariana, “La Malinche” & Cortes drawn by native artist: “through the mouth of Doña Marina…”
Native, speaker of Nahuatl, Maya, and later, Spanish
Interpreter: fundamental to Cortes diplomacy
Beginnings of mestizaje (race mixture)
traitor--a sell out to the invaders?
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Route of Cortes, 1519 Retreat, 1520 Reconquest of Tenochtitlan, 1521
Tenochtitlan in 1519: artist rendition
Templo Mayor inset over Mexico City today
It was remembered that a comet foretold strange happenings
Pedro de Alvarado’s violation of the temple, June 1520
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Why were the natives defeated? (Clendinnen, p. 33)
Technology: horses, weapons
The rules of war: destroy vs. capture
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