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  • A [sic] Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (599 clicks)
  • Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion & Political Control(565 clicks)
    Reviewed by C. Chase-Dunn.
  • Building Cortés's fleet of Brigantines.(555 clicks)
    from the Durán Codex, 1521. Engraving.
  • BURIED MIRROR. CONFLICT OF THE GODS. TRANSCRIPT(593 clicks)
    Good account of the encounter and the conquest.
  • End of an Empire: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico(555 clicks)
    From the Concord Review
  • Estévanico the Moor(595 clicks)
    "Tales of the adventures that befell three conquistadores and their Moorish slave during the sixteenth century led to Spain's Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's exploration of what is now the American Southwest." By Anne B. Allen
  • Fighting in Mexico-Tenochtitlan(560 clicks)
    Florentine Codex, (July-August 1521), Volume III, fol. 465.
  • Hernán Cortés and the Conquest(794 clicks)
    Nice pictures. Links.
  • Hernando Cortés on the Web(578 clicks)
  • Megadeath in Mexico(700 clicks)
    Discover Magazine Issues Feb-06 features Megadeath in Mexico Megadeath in Mexico Epidemics followed the Spanish arrival in the New World, but the worst killer may have been a shadowy native—a killer that could still be out there. By Bruce Stutz DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 02 | February 2006 | Anthropology
  • Miguel León Portilla, Visión de los Vencidos(567 clicks)
    The conquest told from the victims' viewpoint. This is a classic work.
  • Moctezuma's Greeting to Hernan Cortes(588 clicks)
    Part of a lesson on the conquest.
  • Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico(592 clicks)
    An 1843 book which is very readable but not authoritative. The author had never been to Mexico.
  • The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico(603 clicks)
    Excellent account
  • The Conquest of Mexico(564 clicks)
    American Historical Association Digital History Project