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Unique Facts about Mexico: Tenochtitlan

Map of Tenochtitlan, Mural painting from the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Painted in 1930 by Dr. Atl. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlan on 8 Nov 1519. At this time it is believed that the city was amongst the largest in the world alongside Paris & Constantinople. Common estimates put the population at around 200,000 to 300,000 people. Aztec ruler Moctezuma II, thinking Cortés to be the returning god Quetzalcoatl, welcomed him with great pomp.

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Montezuma's Headdress Could Be Coming Home

Montezuma's Headdress (Museum of Ethnology, Vienna) The precious artifact, made of 400 bronze-green quetzal feathers mounted in gold and studded with precious stones, is an important Mexican national symbol because it is traditionally believed to have been worn by Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish arrival in 1519.

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Montezuma's Headdress, the only surviving pre-Columbian headdress of its type. Given to Hernan Cortes, the conquistador, in 1519. He later gave it to Hapsburg Emperor Charles V, Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Conquistador (knight) armour and sword (16th century). On display at Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Cortes verslaat de Azteken in 1519-1521

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Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador, ruled Peru for almost a decade

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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, 1485 –1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

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Jade tooth decorations in Mayan skull

At the height of Mayan civilization, body modification included a variety of alterations of the teeth. Teeth were sharpened to points, or into the letter "T" to represent the wind-glyph, and green jade was inlaid to "purify breath or express elegant speech." Other minerals inserted into teeth included iron pyrites, hematite, turquoise, quartz, serpentine, and cinnabar.