Obsidian mirror which once belonged to Dr John Dee ( 1527 1608 ), Thought to be part of the treasure brought back from Mexico by Cortes. A scryer, gazing into the mirror would see clouds of smoke ...
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The global footprint of European colonial warfare
From the Caribbean to the Indian subcontinent, and from the southern tip of Africa to the islands of Southeast Asia, the ...
How smallpox devastated the Aztecs – and helped Spain conquer an American civilization 500 years ago
Recent outbreaks in the U.S. have drawn attention to the dangers of measles. The Democratic Republic of Congo is fighting a deadly outbreak of Ebola that has killed hundreds. Epidemics are nothing new ...
MEXICO CITY — There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital now known as Mexico City: as the painful birth of modern Mexico, or the start of centuries of ...
The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series at ...
How smallpox devastated the Aztecs – and helped Spain conquer an American civilization 500 years ago
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