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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, ... Badianus Herbal Manuscript is formally called Libellus de ... Codex Reese - a map of land claims in Tenotichlan discovered by ...
During the 19th century, the word 'codex' became popular to designate any pictorial manuscript in the Mesoamerican tradition. In reality, pre-Columbian manuscripts are, strictly speaking, not codices, since the strict librarian usage of the word denotes manuscript books made of vellum, papyrus and other materials besides paper, that have been sewn on one side. [1]
Nahuatl glyph of a calmecac (codex Mendoza, recto of the folio 61).. The Calmecac ([kaɬˈmekak], from calmecatl meaning "line/grouping of houses/buildings" and by extension a scholarly campus) was a school for the sons of Aztec nobility (pīpiltin [piːˈpiɬtin]) in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history, where they would receive rigorous training in history, calendars ...
A map showing the de Soto route through the Southeast, 1539–1542. The viceroy of New Spain Antonio de Mendoza, for whom is named the Codex Mendoza, commissioned several expeditions to explore and establish settlements in the northern lands of New Spain in 1540–1542. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado reached Quivira in central Kansas.
Codex Mendoza (around 1541) is a mixed pictorial, alphabetic Spanish manuscript. [18] The Florentine Codex , compiled 1545–1590 by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún includes a history of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire from the Mexica viewpoint, [ 19 ] with bilingual Nahuatl/Spanish alphabetic text and illustrations by native ...
The 10th pitch — a slider — appeared low, but De Jesus called out Alvarez thus ending the Mets' rally. Carlos Mendoza is ejected after Francisco Alvarez was called out on a questionable strike ...
Defeat of the Tlatoani of Mexico-Tlatelolco, Moquihuix, in 1473, according to Codex Mendoza. Barrios of pre-conquest Tlatelolco over modern map. In 1337, thirteen years after the foundation of Tenochtitlan, the Tlatelolca declared themselves independent from the Tenochca and inaugurated their first independent tlatoani (dynastic ruler).