The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico [Expanded & updated] 9780807055007, 9780807095454

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Table of contents :
Illustrations
 
Translator’s Note
 
Foreword
 
Introduction
Chapter One
Omens Foretelling the Arrival of the Spaniards
Chapter Two
First Reports of the Spaniards’ Arrival
Chapter Three
The Messengers’ Journeys
Chapter Four
Motecuhzoma’s Terror and Apathy
Chapter Five
The Spaniards March on Tlaxcala and Cholula
Chapter Six
The Gifts of Gold: The God Tezcatlipoca Appears
Chapter Seven
The Spaniards Are Welcomed in Tezcoco
Chapter Eight
The Spaniards Arrive in Tenochtitlan
Chapter Nine
The Massacre in the Main Temple during the Fiesta of Toxcatl
Chapter Ten
The Night of Sorrows
Chapter Eleven
The Siege of Tenochtitlan
Chapter Twelve
Spanish Raids into the Besieged City
Chapter Thirteen
The Surrender of Tenochtitlan
Chapter Fourteen
The Story of the Conquest as Told by the Anonymous Authors of Tlatelolco
Chapter Fifteen
Elegies on the Fall of the City
Chapter Sixteen
Aftermath

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