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  2. Codex Mendoza - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Mesoamerican Codices - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Antonio de Mendoza - Wikipedia

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    The Codex Mendoza created by the order of Mendoza, [8] and subsequently named for him. During his term of office, Mendoza is credited with consolidating the sovereignty of the Crown throughout the Spanish conquests in New Spain and limiting the power and ambition of the first conquistadors. Many of the political and economic policies he ...

  6. Calmecac - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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  8. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Codex Mendoza ...

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    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

  9. New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia

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    The Ethiopian government used money from a World Bank-financed health and education initiative to brutally evict thousands of villagers , according to former government officials who helped carry out the forced removals. The World Bank, the planet's most influential development lender, has denied responsibility.