Cortes Map Of Tenochtitlan. Cortés map, the first representation of Tenochtitlan The source of this woodcut map is unknown, and the author argues here that it was based on an indigenous map of the city. Built across a series of natural and artificial islands connected by causeways in the swamps of Lake Texcoco, it was to become one of the largest cities in the world, covering more than five square miles and with a population of perhaps 200,000.
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The startling news of the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes's entry into Mexico and his encoun- ter with the Aztecs in 1519 fascinated Europeans,. Over time the three were able to overpower all other societies in the Valley of Mexico.
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Cortés map, the first representation of Tenochtitlan. The source of this woodcut map is unknown, and the author argues here that it was based on an indigenous map of the city. Built across a series of natural and artificial islands connected by causeways in the swamps of Lake Texcoco, it was to become one of the largest cities in the world, covering more than five square miles and with a population of perhaps 200,000.
Mexico, Map of Tenochtitlan from Praeclara Ferdinandi Cortesii by Hernan Cortes (14851547. The map of Tenochtitlan published along with a Latin version of Hernán Cortés's letters (Nuremberg, 1524) was the first picture Europeans had of the Culhua‐Mexica city, the capital of the Aztec empire Description: The map of Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico included in Hernán Cortés' Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio, 1524