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[Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico]. Description Map of Tenochtitlan and Gulf of Mexico, 1524.jpg The map of Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico included in Hernán Cortés' Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio, 1524
Map of Ancient Pueblo People regions, including the northern Mesa Verde region and the southern Chaco Canyon region. Archaeologists have agreed on three main periods of ancient occupation by Pueblo peoples throughout the Southwest called Pueblo I, Pueblo II, and Pueblo III. [2] Pueblo I (750–900 CE). Pueblo buildings were built with stone ...
Tenochtitlan, [a] also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, [b] was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13 March 1325 was chosen in 1925 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the city. [ 3 ]
English: Map of Tenochtitlan, printed 1524 in Nuremberg, Germany. Colorized woodcut. On the left, the Gulf of Mexico (South is at the top, part of Cuba left); on the right, Tenochtitlan with West at the top.
Map of Pre-Columbian states of Mexico just before the Spanish conquest. The pre-Columbian (or prehispanic) history of the territory now making up the country of Mexico is known through the work of archaeologists and epigraphers, and through the accounts of Spanish conquistadores, settlers and clergymen as well as the indigenous chroniclers of the immediate post-conquest period.
Mexico-Tenochtitlan kept the city-states under threat de facto just by military brute force. The Aztec Empire was an example of an empire that ruled by indirect means. It was ethnically very diverse like most European empires but was more a system of tributes than a single unitary form of government unlike them.
The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan. New Aspects of Antiquity series. Doris Heyden (trans.). New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-39024-X. OCLC 17968786. Miller, Mary; Karl Taube (1993). The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya: An Illustrated Dictionary of Mesoamerican Religion. London: Thames & Hudson.
The Pueblo IV Period (AD 1350 to AD 1600) was the fourth period of ancient pueblo life in the American Southwest. At the end of prior Pueblo III Period, Ancestral Puebloans living in the Colorado and Utah regions abandoned their settlements and migrated south to the Pecos River and Rio Grande valleys. As a result, pueblos in those areas saw a ...