The cabildoofSanJuanTenochtitlan was a governing council established in the 16th century to give a Spanish-style government to Tenochtitlan. The cabildo...
Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the...
Canary Islands Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the governing body of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands CabildoofSanJuanTenochtitlan, a governing...
successor of Chimalpilli II was Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, who also became tlatoani ofTenochtitlan, as well as its governor (CabildoofSanJuan Tenochtitlan)...
downfall of the short rule of the Aztec civilization. The conquest ofTenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire, marked the beginning of Spanish dominance...
many of the areas that were put under the Spanish crown. The Aztec ruling dynasty continued to govern the indigenous polity ofSanJuanTenochtitlan, a...
stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. During...
conquest ofTenochtitlan only under certain conditions including perpetual exemption from tribute of any sort, part of the spoils of war, and control of two...
governors (gobernadores) and town councils (cabildos), separate from the Spanish city council. SanJuanTenochtitlan and Santiago Tlatelolco became the mechanism...
of the Aztec Empire, conqueror Hernán Cortés named the territory New Spain, and established the new capital, Mexico City, on the site ofTenochtitlan...
officeholders of the town council (cabildo). Although the structure of the indigenous cabildo looked similar to that of the Spanish institution, its indigenous...
Case of Xochimilco” In Land and Politics in Mexico, H.R. Harvey, University of New Mexico Press, pp. 265–274. Cruz Pazos, C. (2004). "Cabildos y cacicazgos:...
UNESCO World Heritage Sites preserving some of the best Spanish colonial architecture in the Caribbean." SanJuan was founded by the Spaniards in 1521, where...
Their influence caused the variety of Nahuatl spoken by the residents ofTenochtitlan to become a prestige language in Mesoamerica. After the conquest, when...
since the time of the conquest ofTenochtitlán, had ordered the images of their gods replaced by images of the Virgin in the worshippers of the indigenous...
conquered the Aztec Empire, establishing the colony of New Spain centered in the former capital, Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). Over the next three centuries...
Empire was based. The fall of the Aztec capital ofTenochtitlan in 1521 was a decisive event, but the conquest of other regions of Mexico, such as Yucatán...
Congress of the Muisca People. In that congress, they founded the Cabildo Mayor del Pueblo Muisca, affiliated to the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia...
Knowledge of Muisca mythology has come from Muisca scholars Javier Ocampo López, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Juan de Castellanos and conquistador...
church ofSan Pedro, two in the altarpiece and another in a side reredos. The monastery of Santa Catalina of Arequipa keeps La Piedad, and that of St. Francis...
brought to Europe by conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and soldier Juan de Castellanos in the 16th century and by bishop Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita...
the school of Artes y Oficios, founded in 1552 by the Franciscan priest Jodoco Ricke, who together with Friar Pedro Bedón transformed the San Andrés seminary...
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