The humans of the Nahua neighborhood of Quauhquechollan (present-day San Martín Huaquechula), in relevant Mexico, allied with Cortés throughout the Spanish-Aztec struggle and have been assigned to the Spanish conquistador Jorge de Alvarado. De Alvarado and his allies, together with the Quauhquecholteca and hundreds of thousands of different indigenous warriors, trigger for Guatemala in 1527 to begin a crusade opposed to the Maya. The few Quauhquecholteca who lived to inform the tale recorded their travels and eventual victory at the large fabric map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.
Conquered Conquistadors, released in a eu version in 2004, overturned traditional perspectives of the ecu conquest of indigenous cultures. American historians and anthropologists will have fun with this re-creation and Asselbergs's astute research, consisting of context, interpretation, and comparability with different pictographic bills of the "Spanish" conquest. This seriously illustrated version comprises an insert replica of the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan.
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