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The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. [1] It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests as well as a description of the daily life of pre-conquest Aztec society .
Codex Mendoza is a mixed pictorial, alphabetic Spanish manuscript. [24] Of supreme importance is the Florentine Codex , a project directed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún , who drew on indigenous informants' knowledge of Aztec religion, social structure, natural history, and includes a history of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec ...
Several decades after its painting the Matrícula was used as a reference for Codex Mendoza's tribute section, several pages disappeared after this time. [ 2 ] The first historical mention of the Matrícula appears in Lorenzo Boturini's collection of Mexican documents in the 1740s. 2 pages of the Matrícula was donated to the American ...
The empire reached its maximum extent in 1519, ... Jaguar warrior uniform as tax pay method, from Codex Mendoza. The highest class was the pīpiltin [nb 7] ...
According to the Codex Mendoza, during Tizoc's reign the āltepēmeh of Tonalimoquetzayan, Toxico, Ecatepec, Cillán, Tecaxic, Tolocan, Yancuitlan, Tlappan, Atezcahuacan, Mazatlán, Xochiyetla, Tamapachco, Ecatliquapechco and Miquetlan were conquered. Map showing the expansion of the Aztec empire showing the areas conquered by the Aztec rulers.
It was a last-ditch attempt by Moquihuix and his allies to challenge the might of the Tenochca, who had recently cemented their political dominance within the empire. [1] Ultimately the rebellion failed, resulting in the death of Moquihuix who is pictured in the Codex Mendoza tumbling down the Great Temple of Tlatelolca. [2]
While the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer depicts an eagle attacking a snake, other Mexica illustrations, such as the Codex Mendoza, show only an eagle; in the text of the Ramírez Codex, however, Huitzilopochtli asked the Tenochtitlan people to look for an eagle devouring a snake, perched on a prickly pear cactus.
Acacitli (Nahuatl for "reed hare"; [1] pronounced [aːkaˈsiʔtɬi]) was a Mexica chief and one of the "founding fathers" of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. According to the Crónica mexicayotl , his daughter Tezcatlan Miyahuatzin was married to Acamapichtli , the first tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, and gave birth to King Huitzilihuitl .