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The film is set during the aftermath of the 1520s Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, viewed primarily from the perspective of the Aztecs. The plot begins after the Massacre in the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan, and follows a lone Aztec scribe named Topiltzin [toˈpiɬt͡sin], who is captured by Hernan Cortés and placed in the care of a friar.
The Aztecs [a] (/ ˈ æ z t ɛ k s / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
Apocalypto (/ ə ˌ p ɒ k ə ˈ l ɪ p t oʊ /) is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia.The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez ...
As it was prohibited for a woman to have sex outside of marriage, she had her lovers killed after intercourse. [3] Each lover was made into a statue after death, and when her husband visited her and asked her about the statues, she answered that they were statues of her gods. [3] However, she eventually decided to keep three of her lovers alive.
The Aztecs were conquered by Spain in 1521 after a long siege of the capital, Tenochtitlan, where much of the population died from hunger and smallpox. Cortés, with 508 Spaniards, did not fight alone but with as many as 150,000 or 200,000 allies from Tlaxcala , and eventually other Aztec tributary states.
4. Me Before You (2016). Rating: PG-13 Genre: Romantic Drama Director: Thea Sharrock Cast: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance Based on Jojo Moyes's novel of the same name, the ...
Aztec rule has been described by scholars as "hegemonic" or "indirect". [6] The Aztecs left rulers of conquered cities in power so long as they agreed to pay semi-annual tribute to the alliance, as well as supply military forces when needed for the Aztec war efforts. In return, the imperial authority offered protection and political stability ...
His version of the 2015 documentary “Best of Enemies” stages 1968’s legendarily vicious TV debates between the foremost public intellectuals of the day: left-wing novelist and screenwriter ...