Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century.

Defining the Aztecs based purely on their conquerors’ judgments leads to an incomplete picture at best. Now they can speak for themselves ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Yale professor emeritus John Demos explained the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs by Conquistador Hernán Cortés. He spoke about the advantages ...

The term "Aztecs'' was popularized by a German explorer in the 19th century, and it's often used to describe people who migrated from the mythical homeland of Aztlán.

The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards conquered the mighty Aztec Empire, in the heart of what's now modern Mexico City, has become a foundational myth of European dominance ...

This month marks 500 years since the fall of Tenochtitlán, the grand city of the Mexicas, what the Aztecs called themselves. Historians and other scholars have yet to agree fully on the ...

The Aztecs wrote extensively in the language, producing a large concentration of literature that survived during and after the Spanish conquest and colonization.

Twenty of the 190 coats-of-arms granted during the conquest of Mexico and South America were given to Indians, and Spaniards often married Indian “princesses” under the delusion that the Aztec ...

When the Spanish arrived and later conquered the Aztec empire in the 16th century, they brought along Christianity and Catholicism, infusing the indigenous ritual with All Saint's Day and All Soul ...