connects to a large portion of Americans today. It was wrote by people who actually lived here‚ it was the telling of a people trying to protect their homes and way of life‚ and it covers the history of our neighboring ancestry. First‚ the Florentine Codex was wrote by people native to this continent. Its people could very well be the ancestor of plenty Americans today. It was not wrote by people who had so sail here from another land. It is from our own people. Because of the fact that the
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things” and proceeded to take “everything they saw that pleased them” (Florentine Codex‚ 55-56). The way the Nahuat perceived Spanish greed is also revealed in the codex. Speaking of the conquistadores‚ they write that “gold was what they greatly thirsted for; they were gluttonous for it‚ starved for it‚ they piggishly wanted it” (52). This quote gives insight into the perception of barbarity from the indigenous side. Whereas the codex depicts a ‘lack of culture’ or barbarous behavior among the Spaniards
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oday is due to their strong beliefs in their religion. As it is mentioned in Document 5‚ from the Florentine Codex ‚ a young seventeenyearold is experiencing his first sacrifice ritual. The document states‚ “...I was amazed by the physical beauty of the enemy warrior who was killed at the end of the festival. This seasoned warrior‚ whom we change from a human into a god…” (Florentine Codex). The Aztec’s belief in their religion was strong enough that they felt that it was justified to sacrifice others for their gods
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Native American people was the pestilence of smallpox. An account of just how devastating smallpox was among a populace whose immune systems had no prior experience with or any way to combat European diseases can be found in book twelve of the Florentine Codex. “Before the Spaniards came to us‚ first an epidemic broke out‚ a sickness of pustules. It began in Tepeilhuitl. Large bumps spread on people; some where completely covered. They spread everywhere‚ on the face‚ the head‚ the chest‚ etc. [The
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cultural development that occurred there. The Mendoza Codex (Document 1) is an example that shows the daily activities and customs of the Aztec society. It shows the type of work done by people depending on their gender. The men were taught how to fish and hunt while the women were taught how to work with crafts. The point of view is the author(s) that wrote the Mendoza Codex and believed what was right for each gender. The page from the Codex Mendoza (Document 6) shows how advanced the Aztec marketplace
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As a conquistador under the command of Hernán Cortes‚ Bernal Diaz witnessed some of Latin America’s most interesting and least chronicled history. He was fortunate enough to be one of a select few Europeans to experience the Aztec empire at its height and to visit Tenochtitlan prior to its downfall. In an era where personal accounts of the historical occurrences are almost nonexistent‚ Bernal Diaz’s The True History of the Conquest of New Spain provides virtually the only window into this period
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occurred there (documents 1‚6‚7‚8‚10‚11). The Mendoza Codex exhibits the daily activities and customs of the Aztec realm (doc. 1). It depicts the type of work depending on gender roles‚ in which men performed more of the hunting activities and the women were taught how to work with crafts. The picture also shows how the older generations taught their young the new techniques and traditions. (Insert authors’ pov/bias here).The page from the Codex Mendoza shows the advanced marketplaces they had because
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the goddess of the snake skirt stone monument‚ round‚ can be seen all around. motherly figure Anonymous: a Leaf from the Codex Borgia (pre 16th century) folded out like an accordion; about 26 ft long. abstract; broad color; meant to look flat. decorative quality through abstraction Anonymous: The Art of Featherworking illustrated in the Florentine Codex‚ 1570 western atmosphere influenced; aslo influenced by roman/greece architecture the colorful feathers & symbols on the side
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as one her monograph’s greatest strengths. Diaz avoids an over-reliance on single piece evidence and mentions an array of women in the three convents. Her first several chapters study the debate occurring in Mexico and abroad over the creation of indigenous convents. Diaz then moves into examining the genres of sources written by indigenous women and their confessors to demonstrates the methods in which native women utilized their ethnic identity to position themselves in their religious space.
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would craft jewelry into the shapes of birds‚ reptiles‚ and bells. One kind of jewelry the Aztecs made were earplugs/earspools. There were two Montezumas. Ancient Aztec artifacts included: fired-clay Mictanecuhtl statue‚ Aztec calendar stone‚ the Florentine Codex‚ Aztec feather shield‚ and Montezuma’s throne. There were both men and women in battle. Three major cities were Tenochtitlan‚ Texcoco‚ and Tlacopan. Themes in Aztec art were insects‚ birds‚ fish‚ animals‚ jaguars‚ ducks‚ monkeys‚ snakes‚ deer
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