Book XII: The Conquest of Mexico

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Book XII: The Conquest of Mexico is the section of the Florentine Codex that narrates the Spanish invasion and fall of the Aztec Empire from both Indigenous Nahua and Spanish perspectives.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book section
historical narrative
associatedWith Bernardino de Sahagún
Franciscan ethnographic project in New Spain
Nahua scribes
linked to: Aztec codices
chronologicalScope from arrival of Spaniards on the Gulf Coast to fall of Tenochtitlan
culturalContext Nahua society in central Mexico
early colonial New Spain
describes Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
encounter between Spaniards and Nahua peoples
fall of Tenochtitlan
genre chronicle
ethnohistorical source
historicalEvent Hernán Cortés’s expedition to central Mexico
La Noche Triste
death of Moctezuma II
siege of Tenochtitlan
smallpox epidemic in central Mexico
historicalPeriod early 16th century
language Nahuatl
Spanish
locationOfManuscript Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
medium manuscript
notableFor bilingual Nahuatl–Spanish presentation in the Florentine Codex
contrast between Nahua and Spanish narratives
detailed Indigenous eyewitness accounts
partOf Florentine Codex
perspective Indigenous Nahua perspective
Spanish perspective
relatedWork Book I of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book II of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book III of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book IV of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book IX of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book V of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book VI of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book VII of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book VIII of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book X of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex

Book XI of the Florentine Codex
linked to: Florentine Codex
script Latin alphabet
subject Aztec Empire
Indigenous responses to conquest
Spanish Empire in the Americas
linked to: Spanish Empire

political alliances and betrayals
religious dimensions of conquest
violence and warfare in the conquest of Mexico
usedAsSourceBy anthropologists
ethnohistorians
historians of Mesoamerica

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Florentine Codex hasPart Book XII: The Conquest of Mexico
Book X: The People relatedWork Book XII: The Conquest of New Spain
linked to: Book XII: The Conquest of Mexico
Codex Florentine hasPart Book XII: The Conquest of Mexico