By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, fell to the invaders after a long siege ...

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known ... ruled over Mexico on the eve of the Spanish conquest. "About Moctezuma II, we have many ...

The conquest of Mexico began in 1519 when a small army led by Hernán Cortés landed in the modern-day state of Veracruz. Within two years, the Spanish had overcome the powerful Aztec Empire.

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost ... Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read ...

there was no such thing as an “Aztec Empire” — a term that was coined centuries after the arrival of the Spanish. Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost ... Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read ...

The altar dates back to the time after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital ... is seen as the beginning of the end of the Aztec empire, which in its heyday ruled over the central Mexican ...