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The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, ... Full digital facsimile available on INAH This page was last edited on 15 November 2024, at 20:41 (UTC). Text is ...
INAH Web Page Ixcateopan zona arqueológica (in Spanish) Ixcateopan is an archaeological site located in the town and municipality of Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc , 36 kilometers from Taxco , in the isolated and rugged mountains of the northern part of the Mexican state of Guerrero .
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 ...
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 ...
The codex was created about 20 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. This image depicts the foundation of the city of Tenochtitlan. The image of the golden eagle, perched upon a cactus (depicted in the middle of the page) is the Coat of arms of Mexico and appears on the Flag of Mexico. Articles this image appears in Codex Mendoza Creator
A Xicalcoliuhqui Chīmalli Aztec warriors as depicted in the Codex Mendoza, each one wielding a shield (chīmalli) Shield belonging to the Aztec king Ahuitzotl currently Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria. Ceremonial shield (māhuizzoh chimalli) with mosaic decoration. Aztec or Mixtec, AD 1400-1521. In the British Museum
The Codex Mendoza's account of the war is considerably briefer. In it Moquihuix is described as "a powerful and haughty man' who 'began to pick quarrels and fights" with the Tenochca. [2] Following the resultant "great battles" it is said that Moquihuix, "pressed in battle", fled and took refuge in a temple. [2]
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