Latin America Gallery

Spanish attacked by Aztec warriors during La Noche Triste

La Noche Triste. when Aztec soldiers overwhelmed Cortes's forces in Tenochtitlan.
Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century painting by O. Graeff

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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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EXPL2A-00155

Mistreatment of natives used as slaves by the Spanish in Mexico, 1500s.
Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a 16th-century illustration

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