header by Emerson Taymor, 2005
2. The Conquest
8. Borderlands and comparative history
Chapter 1: Pre-Columbian Mexico
Section A: Introduction to History I
1. Furay and Salevouris, "What Is History?"
2. Skidmore, "Why Study Latin America?"
3. Laveaga, "Every American Needs to Take a History of Mexico Class," Washington Post (July 22, 2021) and NPR conversation
4. Mann, "Loaded Words"
5. Foster, Introduction to A Brief History of Mexico
6. Lacy, "The Nine Cs of Historical Thinking"
7. Sources and general resources on Latin America
9. Maps: blank map of Central and South America; blank map of just Mexico; blank map with states included; Mexican geography; the size of Mexico as compared with other countries
Section B: General Indigenous Mexican History
1. Schroeder, "The Mexico That Spain Encountered," from Oxford History of Mexico
2. map of pre-Columbian Mexico
3. Ancient-wisdom.co.uk: general summary of the Pre-Columbian Americas
4. Illustrated Mesoamerican timeline
5. Map of principal indigenous cities
6. Carrasco, "Splendid Cities Before the Aztecs"
7. Art history resources for pre-Columbian art
8. Foster, "Creation Myths and Worldview"
9. indigenous survivals: linguistic diversity of Mexico; what languages are spoken in Mexico?10. indigenous survivals II: how COVID is bringing back chinampas, the floating gardens of Tenochtitlán
11. indigenous survivals III: what is Day of the Dead? National Geographic videoSection C: Olmecs
1. Schroeder: “The Olmecs”
2. Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: "Olmecs”
3. Links to Olmec heads and the heads' size in comparison to real people
4. Play the Mesoamerican ball game; see the ballcourt; cartoon about the ball game
5. Excerpt from John Fox, The Ball
6. Excerpt from Andreas Campomar, Golazo!, about the history of the ball game
Section D: Maya
1. Schroeder, “The Maya”
2. Pictures of Palenque
3. Color illustration of coffin lid from Palenque
4. Mayan glyphs
5. re-creation of Mayan temple at Copan; the staircase at Copan
7. map of major Maya sites
9. Maya calendar; how the calendar worked
10. Maya codices
11. Popol Vuh, the Mayan Creation Myth
12. National Geographic maps of Maya rise and fall
14. LACMA's "Lords of Creation," on Maya art and culture
15. Maya teeth and elongated heads
16. Wilford, “In Maya Ruins, Scholars See Evidence of Urban Sprawl"
17. Teresi, “Astronomy: Sky Watchers and More”
18. Miller, "Ancient Maya"
19. a complete Maya glyph, deciphered20. Cleve Wootson, "Maya Civilization Was Much Vaster than Known, Thousands of Recently Discovered Structures Reveal," Washington Post (Feb. 3, 2018)
21. Tom Clynes, "Lasers Reveal Maya War Ruins," National Geographic (2019) 22. Pablo Fonseca Q, "Laying Bare the Bones of Ancient Maya Society," Scientific AmericanSection E: Toltecs and others
1. Schroeder, “Teotihuacan”
3. Images from Tula
4. Oxford History of Mesoamerican Cultures: “Toltecs”
Section F: Aztecs
1. Schroeder, “Aztecs”
2. The Heroic Birth of Huitzilopochtli
4. Josephy, “Rise of the Aztecs”
5. Bray, "Aztec social order"
6. Mann, "Aztec (Mexica) Culture"
7. Michael E. Smith, "Aztec Priests"
8. Clendinnen, "The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society"
9. Hanson, “Aztec warfare”
10. Pilcher, "The People of Corn" (for comparison: Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma discusses how much corn we eat today)
11. Diego Rivera's murals of the marketplace
12. “The Day of the Dead”
13. Rena Behar, "The Remote Mexican Restaurant Reviving Jalisco's Forgotten Cuisine," Atlas Obscura, 2023
14. Carrasco, Aztec social order and sense of place
15. Carrasco, Aztec social structure
16. Carrasco, An empire of trade
17. Carrasco, Aztec children
18. Carrasco, Aztec women
19. Townsend on Aztec women, from The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
20. Carrasco on the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan
21. Carrasco on human sacrifice and cosmovision
22. Virtual model of Tenochtitlan you can explore