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A [sic] Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (263 clicks)

Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion & Political Control(2341 clicks)
Reviewed by C. Chase-Dunn.

Building Cortés's fleet of Brigantines.(1864 clicks)
from the Durán Codex, 1521. Engraving.

BURIED MIRROR. CONFLICT OF THE GODS. TRANSCRIPT(2009 clicks)
Good account of the encounter and the conquest.

End of an Empire: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico(2397 clicks)
From the Concord Review

Estévanico the Moor(1907 clicks)
"Tales of the adventures that befell three conquistadores and their Moorish slave during the sixteenth century led to Spain's Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's exploration of what is now the American Southwest." By Anne B. Allen

Fighting in Mexico-Tenochtitlan(1952 clicks)
Florentine Codex, (July-August 1521), Volume III, fol. 465.

Hernán Cortés and the Conquest(2327 clicks)
Nice pictures. Links.

Hernando Cortés on the Web(1050 clicks)

Megadeath in Mexico(792 clicks)
Discover Magazine Issues Feb-06 features Megadeath in Mexico Megadeath in Mexico Epidemics followed the Spanish arrival in the New World, but the worst killer may have been a shadowy native—a killer that could still be out there. By Bruce Stutz DISCOVER Vol. 27 No. 02 | February 2006 | Anthropology

Miguel León Portilla, Visión de los Vencidos(1889 clicks)
The conquest told from the victims' viewpoint. This is a classic work.

Moctezuma's Greeting to Hernan Cortes(2055 clicks)
Part of a lesson on the conquest.

Prescott, The History of the Conquest of Mexico(1887 clicks)
An 1843 book which is very readable but not authoritative. The author had never been to Mexico.

The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico(2309 clicks)
Excellent account

The Conquest of Mexico(810 clicks)
American Historical Association Digital History Project