Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkatɬ aːˈmoʃtɬi], sing. codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by...
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Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking groups living in central...
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Cholula, are sometimes not considered to be Aztec codices, because they were produced outside of the Aztec "heartland". Karl Anton Nowotny, nevertheless...
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divine history, as they sought political legitimacy. Pictographic codices in which the Aztecs recorded their history say that the empire's place of origin...
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Aztecs: Conquest". Library.thinkquest.org. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2010. Informantes de Sahagún: Códice Florentino...
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Perhaps the best-known examples among such documents are Aztec codices, Maya codices, and Mixtec codices, but other cultures such as the Tlaxcaltec, the Purépecha...
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the religious Juan de Zumárraga, who collected the Aztec documents to be incinerated. Aztec codices Damago Soto Hieroglyph Nahuatl language Lacadena, Alfonso...
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evidence for this, found in a passage of the Códice Matritense de la Real Academia and presented in his book Aztec Thought and Culture. In a section on the...
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Mapa Quinatzin (redirect from Códice Quinatzin)
that depict the history of Acolhuacan. Aztec codices Codex Xolotl Mohar Betancourt, Luz María (1999). "El Códice Quinatzin: De valientes guerreros chichimecas...
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festivals were associated. Visual accounts of Aztec sacrificial practice are principally found in codices and some Aztec statuary. Many visual renderings were...
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Codex Mendoza (category Aztec codices)
commanders Folio 69 recto Moctezuma II's palace Mesoamerican Codices Aztec codex Maya codices Berdan, F. F.; Anawalt, P. R. (1992). "Codex Mendoza". Scientific...
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Aztec philosophy was a school of philosophy that developed out of Aztec culture. Aztec cosmology was in some sense dualistic, but exhibited a less common...
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Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The...
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by the Aztecs including the ability to calculate the areas of irregular plots of land. H.R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams, eds. "Preface" Códice Santa...
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The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mēxihcah (pronounced...
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The ancient Aztecs employed a variety of entheogenic plants and animals within their society. The various species have been identified through their depiction...
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Aztec society was a highly complex and stratified society that developed among the Aztecs of central Mexico in the centuries prior to the Spanish conquest...
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Codex Boturini (category Aztec codices)
occurred before or just after the Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521). At least two other Aztec codices have been influenced by the content and style...
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Codex Tudela (redirect from Códice Tudela)
The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Aztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and...
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Diego Durán (category Scholars of the Aztecs)
1579). He was fluent in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and was therefore able to consult natives and Aztec codices as well as work done by earlier friars...
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The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican...
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Codex Huamantla (redirect from Códice de Huamantla)
The Codex Huamantla also known as the Codex of Huamantla and Códice de Huamantla is an Otomi codex. It contains the work of two artists, and is believed...
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Jaguar warrior (redirect from Aztec Jaguar)
capture prisoners for sacrifice to the Aztec gods. Many statues and images (in pre-Columbian and post-Columbian codices) of these warriors have survived. They...
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Ramírez Codex (category Mesoamerican codices)
and 32. The Spanish Conquest Mesoamerican Codices Aztec codices Diego Durán Leal, Luis (1953). "El Codice Ramirez". Historia Mexicana. 3 (1): 11–33....
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Nahuatl (redirect from Aztec language)
Maya Script did. Therefore, generally Aztec writing was not meant to be read, but to be told. The elaborate codices were essentially pictographic aids for...
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Aztec clothing was worn by the Aztec people and varied according to aspects such as social standing and gender. The garments worn by Aztecs were also...
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Codex Borbonicus (category Aztec codices)
very few Aztec codices that survived the colonial Spanish inquisition. When the Spanish conquistadors (led by Hernán Cortés) entered Aztec cities, they...
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Codex Azcatitlan (category Aztec codices)
to Codex Azcatitlan. Mesoamerican codices Aztec codices Lorenzo Boturini Aztecs Aztlán Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire "Tlatoque" is the plural form...
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Codex Ríos (category Mesoamerican codices)
Tepeyollotl Tlaloc Xochiquetzal Codex Vaticanus B Mesoamerican codices Aztec codices Aztec calendar "FAMSI - Akademische Druck - u. Verlagsanstalt - Graz...
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