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Aztec and Toltec
Origins
of Mexico
This page gives a brief but concise presentation of the origins
of Mexico, mainly the origins of the Toltec and Aztec (Mexicas)
peoples and their rise as large civilizations. The site of
their capital city, Tenochtitlan,
on lake Texcoco, is now the site of present day Mexico City. The
Templo Mayor Museum
(En/Sp) will help to inform you on Aztec archeology and culture.
Nahuatl
Culture
This resource page created and maintained by the Azteca
Web Page is dedicated to Nahuatl culture.
Aztec -
Student Teacher Resource Center
This large resource has very good and extensive information on
Aztec civilization.
Teotihuac?n
on the Web This four star U. of Minn/Deluth
archeology web site provides a table of links for Teotihuac?n.
Teotihuac?n
at U of Guadalajara.
Archaeology
of Teotihuacan at ASU (with quick time video presentations).
Comprehensive.
Aztecs
This U. of Guadalajara site has won numerous awards for its
presentation and graphics.
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Echoes
of the Aztec Culture
A good site for students, here you can find titles including
Early Aztec History, Early Spanish History, Similarities
with the Spanish and Aztec Religions, the Aztec City, and Food
and other aspects of the Aztec culture. Has decent
graphics and very readable text.
The
Aztec/Spanish Encounter
Mainly a text based site, The Aztec/Spanish Encounter presents
information on cultural interaction under the titles of Cultural
Perception and Spanish Motivations.
The
Aztec Calendar: The Pointer Excellent
graphics and well designed, this site is dedicated solely to the
Aztec Calendar. Another good, very detailed site with more
sociological information is The
Aztec Calendar at U. of Minnesota. For brief, more
general information on the Sun Stone, try Aztecs
and the Sun Stone and The
Aztec Sun Stone.
Tlahuica
Culture Home Page
Dr. Michael E. Smith, a renown scholar on Aztec culture, has put
together a four star archeology site on the Aztec people at
Tlahuica, an ancient site near the modern city of Cuernavaca.
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Ancient
Mesoamerican Civilizations
This four star U. of Minnesota site covers extensively all
civilizations of Mesoamerica. Although generally without
graphics or techno bells and whistles, this site is great text
from professional archeologists. For a good look at Aztec
manuscripts, try GB Online's page entitled Aztec
Manuscripts. Another four star archeology site with great
resources for mesoamerican archeology is the U.
of Minn/Deluth Archeology Page.
The
Buried Mirror The Buried Mirror page at the U. of
Michigan is extremely well designed and informative, with superb
hypertext links to explanations of places, people, etc. as you
come across them in the text.
Aztlan E-Journal
This four star site on-line journal presents a number of
academic papers of interest to serious students of ancient
Mexican civilizations.
Mexico:
Biography of Power
Chapter one of what looks to be an intriguing history of modern
Mexico (1810-1996) by Enrique Krauze details and discusses the
ideological and political manipulation of the image of the
ancient Aztecs (and contemporary) in the period from 1810 to
1996.
Still want more on Aztec civilization and
culture?
Bibliography
of Aztec History, The
Gods of the Aztecs, Huitzilopochtli
Popocatepetl--Mexico
End of an Empire: The
Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Cuahtemoc's
Aztec Kingdom, In
Search of the Roots of Ancient American Civilization,
Mortuary Practice among the Aztecs, History--Myth
and Migration in Mesoamerica,
Latin
American Pre-History, World
History Archives: Native Americans in Mexico (articles)
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