Yahoo

500 years later, Mexico still struggles with 'uneasy truths' about the Spanish conquest

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Mexico looks back on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an award-winning filmmaker wants his fellow ...
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The Americas in the Spanish world order : the justification for conquest in the seventeenth century / James Muldoon

1. The law of Christian-infidel relations : the Spanish title to the new world -- 2. To civilize the barbarian-the anthropology and history -- 3. The mechanics of political evolution -- 4. The ...
Reuters

Mexican president asks indigenous for forgiveness over Spanish conquest

MEXICO CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country's indigenous Mexica peoples for forgiveness for the abuses inflicted on them during the ...
Newsday

Spain's king acknowledges 'much abuse' in the conquest of the Americas

MADRID — Spain’s monarch said Monday the Spanish conquest of the Americas included “much abuse” and “ethical controversies,” striking a conciliatory tone amid a yearslong row between Spain and Mexico ...
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Surviving Spanish conquest : Indian fight, flight, and cultural transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / Karen F. Anderson-Cordova

"An ethnohistoric and archaeological study of the transformations that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550"-- Provided by ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Aztec Altar Secretly Built After the Spanish Conquest Discovered in Mexico City

Archaeologists in Mexico City have found an altar dated to the decades after Spain’s 1521 conquest of the Aztec Empire’s capital, Tenochtitlán. Located in the courtyard of an Aztec home, the altar ...
Reuters

Mexico unearths mass grave from Spanish conquest

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archeologists have found a mass grave in Mexico City with four dozen human skeletons laid out in neat lines that could reveal clues about the 16th century Spanish conquest that ...