book chapter
The true history of the conquest of New Spain
Printed for the Hakluyt society • London • Published In 1910 • Pages: xvi, 152
By: Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, García, Genaro, Maudslay, Alfred Percival.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This portion of an account of Cortez’s conquest of the Aztec Empire by one of his soldiers covers events from the arrival of the expedition in the Tlaxcalan city of Cholula to the extraction of tribute and defiant building of a Christian altar in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Mexico) where the emperor Montezuma was held captive. It includes observations on the cultures of the rival Nahua groups.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aztecs
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Soldier
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- James Leary ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1519-1522
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1519-1520
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Puebla and State of Mexico, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Bernal Díaz del Castillo , one of its conquerors ; edited and published in Mexico by Genaro García ; Translated into English, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay
- Uniform Title: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
- 'From the only exact copy made of the original manuscript'
- Omitted from the file: pages 152-343
- 'Bibliography of Mexico': v. 1, p. [309]-368
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 09030461
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aztecs