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Bibliography

The following bibliography lists the sources I have found useful for excerpting primary document passages to discuss with my class. I have also included a list of secondary sources which provide useful background information on the Aztec civilization and the Spanish Empire. The few web sites listed (and briefly reviewed) are possible jumping off points for a student's own web research.

Primary Sources

Cortes, Hernan. "Third Letter." In Patricia De Fuentes, ed. The Conquistadors: First Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. The University of Oklahoma Press. Norman. 1993. Pp. 51 - 133.

Aguilar, Francisco de "The Chronicle of Fray Francisco de Aguilar." In Patricia De Fuentes, ed. The Conquistadors: First Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. The University of Oklahoma Press. Norman. 1993. Pp. 151-158.

Las Casas, Bartolome. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Penguin USA. 1992.

Diaz, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain. Penguin Books. New York. 1963.

Leon-Portilla, Miguel, ed. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Beacon Press. Boston. 1992.

Secondary Sources

The European Emergence: Time Frame. Time Life. 1989. (Out of print.)

Hopkins, Jack W, ed. Latin America, Perspectives on a Region. Holmes & Meier Publishing, Inc. 1998.

Wallbank, T. Walter et al, eds. Civilization Past and Present: Volume 1 to 1774, Eighth Edition. HarperCollins College Publishers. New York. 1996.

Web Sites

These are just some of many possible web sites that exist on the subject of the Aztecs and the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Key word searches on Aztec Civilization, Cortes, Spain in the sixteenth century, and so on, yield many addresses, and provide students with a good exercise in evaluating the usefulness and accuracy of web sites.

http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/mainmenu.html

A broad directory on the explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth century with many links to other sites. An excellent starting point for research.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~voorburg/aztec/

A small but fun website on the Aztec calendar.

http://udgftp.cencar.udg.mx/ingles/Precolombina/precointro.html

A dense site put up by the University of Guadalajara, with a variety of primary document excerpts and visuals. Difficult to decipher, but a good exercise in web navigation for students.

http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/ancwrite.html

Good examples of Aztec and other Mesoamerican manuscripts and codices.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5003/aztecref.html

This site provides some information on the Aztecs themselves plus numerous links to other pages and suggestions for conducting a search for data on Aztec civilization.

http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.html

A good overview of Aztec culture, plus information on emperors and the Aztec calendar as well as an extensive bibliography.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html

Primary documents on Cortes' relations with the Aztecs.

http://www.umich.edu/~proflame/texts/mirror/conflict.html

Information on Cortes' history. Some useful links provided.

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