By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, fell to the invaders after a long siege ...

In 1521, the powerful Aztec empire was brutally conquered by the Spanish, led by the ambitious ... He was helped in his conquest by local peoples who bore a grudge against the Aztecs, chief ...

On the edge of Mexico City's famed Zócalo plaza, next to the ruins of the Aztec sacred pyramid known ... ruled over Mexico on the eve of the Spanish conquest. "About Moctezuma II, we have many ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost ... Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards who overthrew it, and so they have to be read ...

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...