- To carry out your research, you can use the following sources:a) Historical maps to locate the colonization of the Caribbean and the route Hernán Cortés followed from Veracruz to Tenochtitlan.
b) Chronicles by Spanish conquerors, as Cartas de relación, written by Hernán Cortés, and Historia verdadera de la Conguista de la Nueva Espana, by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. They are long sources,so use only the parts you consider necessary.
C Images from the Códice florentino, specifically the book XII,which presents the conquest of Tenochtitlan from the perspective of the Mexica. You can find it in Spanish, Nahuatl, and English by following the QR/link on the right.
d) The book Visión de los vencidos by Miguel León Portilla provides additional sources from the Mexica point of view.
e)The webpage Noticonquista, where you will find historical sources, images from codices, people from those times, important places, and texts by contemporary researchers about the topic.
Once you have advanced in your research, share your findings in assembly and share your opinions about the causes and consequences of the Conquest.
Reflect on Spanish dominance by considering this question: How did the Spanish imposition of a new political, social, economic, and cultural order alter the lives of the indigenous populations?
Reading
Individually, read the following extract from a letter Hernán Cortés sent to Charles V, taken from the book The Library of Original Sources: 9th to 16th century. You can read the ful letter by following the QR/link on the right.
This great city of Temixtitlan [Mexico] is situated in this salt lake [..]. There are four avenues or entrances to the city, allof which are formed by artificial causeways, two spears' length in width. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones,are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water; and are navigated by canoes. All the streets at intervals have openings, through which the water flows, crossing from one street to another; and at these openings, some of which are very wide, there are also very wide bridges, composed of large pieces of timber; of great strength and well put together [...].
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