Aztec Gallery

EXPL2A-00294

Tenochtitlan, capital city of Aztec Mexico, an Island connected by causeways to land, 1520s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an early Spanish colonial map

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1500s, 1520, 16th Century, American, Art, Aztec, Cause Way, City, Civilization, Colonial, Colony, Conquest, Cortes, Cortez, Discover, Exploration, Explore, Hernando Cortes, Historic, History, Illustration, Island, Lake, Lake Tezcoco, Latin America, Map, Mexican, Mexico, Mexico City, New Spain, New World, North America, Road, Spanish, Tenochtitlan, Vintage, Xochimilco

EXPL2A-00081

Dona Marina, La Malinche, native interpreter for Hernando Cortes in the Spanish conquest of Aztec Mexico.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1500s, 16th Century, Amerindian, Art, Aztec, Cortes, Dona Marina, Female, Hernando Cortes, Historic, History, Illustration, Indian, Interpreter, La Malinche, Mayan, Mexican, Mexico, Native, New World, North America, Translator, Vintage, Woman