The Aztec Empire
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In the late fourteenth-century, the Culhua-Mexica people of the basin of Mexico founded their city of Tenochtitlan in Lake Texcoco, eventually forming an alliance with their immediate neighbors, overthrowing the Tepanecs, and taking up the mantle of empire: marching their armies across the whole of Mexico. Tribute poured in from places as distant as Coastal Guatemala and the American Southwest, foreign diplomats made obeisance before the throne of Tenochtitlan's emperors, and the Aztec language (Nahuatl) was spread as a lingua franca throughout much of this region. This course surveys the rise of the Aztecs from humble nomads to empire builders, and chronicles the life and reigns of nine emp…
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In the late fourteenth-century, the Culhua-Mexica people of the basin of Mexico founded their city of Tenochtitlan in Lake Texcoco, eventually forming an alliance with their immediate neighbors, overthrowing the Tepanecs, and taking up the mantle of empire: marching their armies across the whole of Mexico. Tribute poured in from places as distant as Coastal Guatemala and the American Southwest, foreign diplomats made obeisance before the throne of Tenochtitlan's emperors, and the Aztec language (Nahuatl) was spread as a lingua franca throughout much of this region. This course surveys the rise of the Aztecs from humble nomads to empire builders, and chronicles the life and reigns of nine emperors from Acamapichtli to Moteuczoma II. The focus is on the reconstruction of past lifeways from historical and archaeological evidence, and on the general lessons to be learned from the violent cultural clash of the Aztecs and Spanish in the sixteenth century. The recorded lectures are from the 2010 course ANTH E-176. (4 credits)
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