By her he left a son, Asupacaci, who fell during the Noche Triste, and a daughter, Tecuichpoch, later baptized as Isabel Moctezuma. Im November 1519 treffen Cortés und der Aztekenherrscher Montezuma aufeinander (eigentlich „Motcuhzma“ aus Gründen der Lesbarkeit verwenden wir durchgehend die europäisierte Schreibweise des Namens). For those who are students, as a vocation or avocation, of the ancient cultures that inhabited this continent this is a must book to read and have on hand to reread over and again because you won't want it to end. Historian Restall of Pennsylvania State University has delivered an exhaustively researched, forcefully argued and compelling reconsideration of the conquest of Mexico. Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felt. I'm curious what the historians of Mexico think of this book. A huge marketplace drew thousands of people every day from all over this “empire” (as some historians have called it) and a ceremonial precinct lay at the centre of the city, from which the pyramid of the Great Temple towered over the grid of canals and streets. While “The Mick” patrolled center field and batted clean-up between 1951 and 1968, the Yankees won 12 American League pennants and seven World Series championships. Er will Cortés das Kommando über die Mission im letzten Moment wieder entziehen. 30 June 1520: Spaniards flee Tenochtitlan. Written excitingly, [it is] a book that was needed and could hardly have done better.--Michael Swan. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or “the Night of Sadness,” many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco when the vessel carrying them and Aztec treasures hoarded by Cortés sank. Und das Reich der Azteken: Es war vollkommen anders, als wir bis heute glauben. Cortés’ men leveled the city and captured Cuauhtémoc, the Aztec emperor. [26] These legends are likely a part of the post-conquest rationalization by the Aztecs of their defeat, and serve to show Moctezuma as indecisive, vain, and superstitious, and ultimately the cause of the fall of the Aztec Empire. In vier Reihen, jede knapp fünf Kilometer lang, seien die Gefangenen ein Jahr später bei einer Tempelweihe dem Opfertod entgegengeschritten; am Altar angekommen, hätten die Priester ­ihnen den Leib aufgeschnitten und ihnen das Herz herausgerissen. Die Kampfgefährten der ersten Stunde: fast allesamt tot. Ängstlich und zaudernd, so stellen die Chronisten Montezuma schon seit dem 16. The Aztecs’ practice of warfare disadvantaged them in some encounters as they fought to capture victims for human sacrifice rather than to kill. Und kaum vorstellbar ist, dass Montezuma diesem interessanten, diesem gefährlichsten Teil seiner Sammlung ein langes Leben zugedacht hat. An earlier realisation of the extent of the conquistadors’ intentions might also have allowed the Aztecs to marshal resistance and move against them more effectively. Landing on the Mexican coast on Good Friday, 1519, Hernán Cortés felthimself the bearer of a divine burden to conquer and convert the firstadvanced civilization Europeans had yet encountered in the West. In 1865 (coincidentally during the Second Mexican Empire), the title, which was held by Antonio María Moctezuma-Marcilla de Teruel y Navarro, 14th Count of Moctezuma de Tultengo, was elevated to that of a Duke, thus becoming Duke of Moctezuma, with de Tultengo again added in 1992 by Juan Carlos I. Descendants of Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma included (through an illegitimate child of his son Diego Luis) General Jerónimo Girón-Moctezuma, 3rd Marquess de las Amarilas (1741–1819), a ninth-generation descendant of Moctezuma II, who was commander of the Spanish forces at the Battle of Fort Charlotte, and his grandson, Francisco Javier Girón y Ezpeleta, 2nd Duke of Ahumada and 5th Marquess of the Amarillas who was the founder of the Guardia Civil in Spain. Cortes. Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was recording his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación (Letters from Mexico) to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown. 80400 Menschen seien anlässlich der Krönung des Herrschers Ahuitzotl im Jahr 1486 hier den aztekischen Göttern geopfert worden, berichten übereinstimmend verschiedene Quellen aus dem 16. Caroline Dodds is a lecturer at the University of Leicester specialising in Aztec and early modern Atlantic history. Mit diesen Waffen lässt sich eine Stellung gegen zahlenmäßig überlegene und stets frontal angreifende indigene Kräfte so lange halten, bis Verstärkung eintrifft. Aber das ist Spekulation. He visited the coast of Yucatán and in March 1519 landed at Tabasco in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche with 500 soldiers, 100 sailors, and 16 horses. Inquisition, Religionskriege, Hexenverfolgung, Judenpogrome: Beobachter aus dem Aztekenreich hätten im 16. 245–299). Denn wenn der Aztekenherrscher sich ergibt, können die Konquistadoren das Recht auf Besiedelung des Landes für sich in Anspruch nehmen. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Es ist ein Moment, der die Welt von Grund auf verändern wird. Nur dass sie keinen Sold erhalten, sondern einem Versprechen auf die Zukunft folgen: reiche Beute. Please enter your number below. Also, according to Spanish law, the king had no right to demand that foreign peoples become his subjects, but he had every right to bring rebels to heel. Seine berühmte Unterwerfungsrede: gewiss eine Erfindung der Spanier. Jetzt auswählen und abonnieren – natürlich kostenlos! There seems to be a problem, please try again. Guns, armour and steel weaponry would not alone have been sufficient to overcome the Aztecs’ numerical advantage, but they were certainly effective, particularly in skirmishing. Schon in der zweiten Kampfwoche haben indigene Krieger die Hälfte der Schlachtrösser außer Gefecht gesetzt. Wählen Sie eine Sprache für Ihren Einkauf. The Nahuatl pronunciation of his name is [motekʷˈsoːma]. In 1530, he returned to Mexico, now known as New Spain, and found the country in disarray. Leider ist ein Problem beim Speichern Ihrer Cookie-Einstellungen aufgetreten. Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590) includes in Book 12 of the Florentine Codex eight events said to have occurred prior to the arrival of the Spanish. Es habe sich vielmehr um „rituelle Exekutionen“ im Rahmen politischer und militä­rischer Auseinandersetzungen gehandelt. Etwas ist schiefgegangen. Cortés later melted these down for their monetary value. [citation needed] One such example was the rebellion of the Virgin Cult in Chiapas in 1721, where the followers of the Virgin Mary rebelled against the Spanish after having been told by an apparition of the virgin that Moctezuma would be resuscitated to assist them against their Spanish oppressors. Cortés was a devout Christian. Und die Mannschaften dieser Konquis­tadoren sind zumeist keine professionellen Soldaten, sondern eher mittellose Abenteurer, angelockt vom goldenen Schimmern im Westen. His partnership with Tlapalizquixochtzin also made him a king consort of Ecatepec since she was queen of that city. At Veracruz, Cortés trained his army and then burned his ships to ensure loyalty to his plans for conquest. It was believed that the gods had destined the Aztecs to be a warrior people, and they became increasingly focused on warfare and military achievement, even practising “flowery wars” specifically for the purpose of securing victims. In 1511, he sailed with Diego Velázquez to conquer Cuba and twice was elected mayor of Santiago, the capital of Hispaniola. In der Defensive allerdings, in der sich die Spanier sehr oft befinden (zwei Drittel von ihnen fallen in diesem Krieg, schätzt Matthew Restall), da sichern sie das Überleben. Why and to what extent Montezuma cooperated remains unclear, but his cooperation certainly secured the temporary obedience of the people, albeit in an atmosphere of increasing resentment. [31][32] Isabel married consecutively to Cuauhtémoc (the last Mexican sovereign), to a conquistador in Cortés' original group, Alonso Grado (died c. 1527), a poblador (a Spaniard who had arrived after the fall of Tenochtitlán), to Pedro Andrade Gallego (died c. 1531), and to conquistador Juan Cano de Saavedra, who survived her. Anders als die meisten seiner Gefährten eines natürlichen Todes im Bett. Der letzte große Herrscher der Azteken bekämpft die Konquistadoren kompromisslos und verteidigt Tenochtitlan bis zuletzt. Do tej książki podchodziłem sceptycznie i to tylko z tego powodu, że kupiłem ją za kilkanaście złotych w jednej z sieci "tanich książek". Mit ihr lässt sich der tiefe Graben zwischen der alten und der neuen Glaubenswelt überbrücken. Ohne diese Männer, die Cortés’ Kräfte vervielfachen, wäre sein armseliger Trupp wohl schnell im Hagel der Pfeile untergegangen. Rumours of a powerful kingdom in the interior had been confirmed by emissaries from the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs. The details of his death are unknown, with different versions of his demise given by different sources. Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325 A.D. by a wandering tribe of hunters and gatherers on islands in Lake Texcoco, near the present site of Mexico City. Wohl eher nicht. (1520 zu Kaiser Karl V. gekrönt) sie auf Tournee durch sein Habsburgerreich schickt. Diese Verzerrung der Wahrheit entsteht durch die einseitige Quellenlage. Cortes and Montezuma | | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. The first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán.