victors and vanquished

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English

 

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Trisha W

 

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June 30, 2013

 

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University

 

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Diaz stresses the importance of communication and the good fortune of the Spanish in having translators. He also discusses both the culture of the Nahua and Spanish military equipment and tactics. What were the technological advantages and disadvantages of the Spanish and the indigenous peoples? Did knowledge of science and geography favor the Europeans? Chapters 14 and 15 of The Making of the West provide a general historical context for Schwartz's Victors and Vanquished, which explores European history within a world-history context integrating Latin American and early-modern historiography...
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Schwartz fills in that general background with a collection of documents that illustrate the clash of two cultures and how this conflict created a new environment for the Nahua and the Spanish, for other Native Americans and other Europeans. Both the Spanish and the Mexica were "renaissance conquerors" and strongly religious, and Victors and Vanquished reveals the shared complexity, violence, pride, and prejudice of these seemingly different societies and peoples...
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