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Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (also spelt Velásquez, 1465-1524) was a Spanish conquistador who conquered Cuba in 1511, became the island's first governor for the next decade, and sponsored expeditions of conquest directed...

Mixcoatl, 'Cloud Serpent,' was a Mesoamerican god identified with hunting, the Milky Way and the stars and heavens in general. The god may originally have derived from a deified hunter and warrior-leader of the Toltec-Chichimec peoples...

The Battle of San Jacinto (21 April 1836) was the decisive engagement of the Texas Revolution in which General Sam Houston (1793-1863) defeated the Mexican Army under President and General Antonio López...

The Kachina (also “Katsina”) cult refers to the specific religious practices centered on the kachina, which is a spiritual entity and divine messenger of the Puebloan peoples as well as the Hopi, Zuni, Tewa, and Keresan tribes in...

Xochicalco in central Mexico was an important hilltop centre from the 8th century CE and was a rival and successor of Teotihuacán. Architecture at the site is closely connected to that of the Classic Maya, Teotihuacan, and Veracruz...

Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847. Lithograph depicting the US Army's taking of Chapultepec castle, printed by unknown artist, possibly published by James Baillie, ca. 08 February 1848. The Battle of...

The Templo Mayor or Great Temple (called Hueteocalli by the Aztecs) dominated the central sacred precinct of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. Topped by twin temples dedicated to the war god Huitzilopochtli and...

The rulers of China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644) acquired an insatiable desire for silver in the 16th century, largely to pay for huge prestige projects like building the Forbidden City in Beijing and repairing the...

Canal with a touristic trajineras, photography by Luis Bartolomé Marcos, Xochimilco in Mexico City, 05 November 2013. Flat-bottomed, vibrantly colored tourist boats known as trajineras pass by a chinampa, a man-made agricultural...

The Lady of Guadalupe in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, photograph by Daniel Case, Mexico City, 20 July, 2015. Patronness of the Americas in the Catholic tradition, Our Lady of Guadalupe is an image of Mary, Mother...