LINGUIST 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Heel, Aztec Calendar Stone, Olmec Colossal Heads
22 Oct 2017
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The toltecs: the toltecs settled in the valley of mexico where they built (levantaron) the city of tula, it had a population of about (quizas) 40,000, they were good merchants (comerciantes) and fierce warriors. Hernando cortez and the conquest: the aztec empire enjoyed (gozaba) its moment of maximum splendor when it"s world was about to change drastically, eleven ships arrived in the yucatan peninsula in february 1519. Aboard was: hernan cortes, 500 men, 16 horses, 14 pieces of artillery, a little over a year later (desp s), the spaniards, with many indigenous allies, conquered the aztecs, in the americas there was no horses nor firearms. To the aztecs, a man on horseback would be like a centaur. After hearing the firing of a canon and see the fire out of his mouth, it would be frightening. If you take a visit: mexico city sites include, z calo. It was built on the ruins of tenochtitlan.
