Chapter 2
Video Resources
- In this fragment of the documentary When the Moors Ruled Europe, historian Bettany Hughes discusses the fall and expulsion of Muslims from Spain on the eve of Columbus’s expedition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMAfXUiLw-c (7:58)
- This Discovery Channel video features authoritative specialists who compare the effectiveness of Spanish and Aztec weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBa1G12KyTM (6:11)
- This video discusses the history and the later varied interpretations of “La Malinche”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJB_FO-zzsU (5:36)
- This video graphic novel tells of the misadventures of Cabeza de Vaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stkeVcrt4nE (2:07)
- This full-length feature film, The Other Conquest, imagines the story of the immediate aftermath of the conquest through the life of Moctezuma’s illegitimate son, Topiltzin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Fv2fpizcw (1:50:34)
Links
- This website contains an annotated bibliography of printed and web sources related to the conquest: http://faculty.fullerton.edu/nfitch/nehaha/conquestbib.htm
- This website discusses the life of Juan Garrido, one of many Africans who fought for Spain in the conquest: http://augustine.com/history/black_history/juan_garrido/#marker3
- Compiled by UCLA historian Kevin Terranciano, this website contains indigenous accounts of the history of the conquest though codices: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/terraciano/images/PAGE2/pictures/codex_beker.htm
- Featuring images and discussion of the sixteenth-century Tlaxcalan historian Diego Muñoz Camargo, this website focuses on the history of Tlaxcala during the conquest: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/jan2003.html
- This website contains primary-source documents, including native accounts, about the conquest: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/contact/text7/text7read.htm
- This website contains the biography of Hernán Cortés’s interpreter “La Malinche” and offers primary-source documents: http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson6/lesson6.php?s=0
- This website presents a description of the Aztec city Tenochtitlan by conquistador and chronicler Bernal Diaz: http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/sources/conquestofnewspain.html
- This website contains the history of Yucatan as told by Diego de Landa, the infamous Spanish friar who destroyed thousands of Maya religious icons and burned dozens of Maya books: http://sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/ybac/index.htm
- This website presents the visual culture of Spanish America during and after the conquest: http://www.smith.edu/vistas/vistas_web/index.html
- The website discusses New World foods that became part of the European diet after the conquest: http://staff.esuhsd.org/balochie/studentprojects/newworldfoods/