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Aztec is a 1980 historical fiction novel by American author Gary Jennings. It is the first of two novels Jennings wrote in the Aztec series, followed by Aztec Autumn , 1997. The remaining four novels ( Aztec Blood , 2002; Aztec Rage , 2006; Aztec Fire , 2008; Aztec Revenge , 2012) were written by other authors after Jennings died in 1999.
Mainly between 1940 and 1965, he published a large number of widely acclaimed books about the ancient people of the Inca, Maya, and Aztecs. Victor Wolfgang von Hagen was born on February 29, 1908, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Henry von Hagen and Eleanor Josephine (Stippe-Hornbach) Von Hagen.
The Peruvian writer known as Inca Garcilaso de la Vega used the book as a source for his book, Comentarios Reales de los Incas. A copy of Historia general de las Indias annotated by Garcilaso de la Vega remains extant. [3] Francisco Cervantes de Salazar copied much of Gomara's book to make his Crónica de la Nueva España.
The Aztecs: Frances F. Berdan: 14 June 2021 14 June 2021 — Aztec Empire [10] 10 The Phoenicians: Vadim S. Jogulov 1 November 2021 1 November 2021 1 September 2024 Phoenicia [11] 11 The Inca: Kevin Lane 14 February 2022 14 February 2022 — Inca Empire [12] 12 The Maya: Megan E. O'Neil 2 May 2022 2 May 2022 — Maya civilization [13] 13 Nubia ...
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (Spanish title: Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista; lit."Vision of the Defeated: Indigenous relations of the conquest") is a book by Mexican historian Miguel León-Portilla, translating selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
Aztec codices were usually made from long sheets of fig-bark paper or stretched deerskins sewn together to form long and narrow strips; others were painted on big cloths. [5] Thus, usual formats include screenfold books, strips known as tiras, rolls, and cloths, also known as lienzos. While no Aztec codex preserves its covers, from the example ...
The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu, [13] "the suyu of four [parts]". In Quechua, tawa is four and -ntin is a suffix naming a group, so that a tawantin is a quartet, a group of four things taken together, in this case the four suyu ("regions" or "provinces") whose corners met at the capital.
The Aztec are sieged in Chapultepec by the Tepaneca and the Culhua by the orders of Coxcoxtli, king of Culhuacan (Codex Ramírez, plate 3). The Ramírez Codex (Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia, MNA 35-100), not to be confused with the Tovar Codex, is a post-conquest codex from the late 16th century entitled Relación del origen de los indios que hábitan esta Nueva España ...