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In Conquered Conquistadors , Florine Asselbergs reveals that a large pictorial map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan , long thought to represent a series of battles in central Mexico, was actually painted in the 1530s by Quauhquecholteca warriors to document their invasion of Guatemala alongside the Spanish and to proclaim themselves as conquistadors. This painting is the oldest known map of Guatemala and a rare document of the experiences of indigenous conquistadors. The people of the Nahua community of Quauhquechollan (present-day San Martín Huaquechula), in central Mexico, allied with Cortés during the Spanish-Aztec War and were assigned to the Spanish conquistador Jorge de Alvarado. De Alvarado and his allies, including the Quauhquecholteca and thousands of other indigenous warriors, set off for Guatemala in 1527 to start a campaign against the Maya. The few Quauhquecholteca who lived to tell the story recorded their travels and eventual victory on the huge cloth map, the Lienzo de Quauhquechollan . Conquered Conquistadors , published in a European edition in 2004, overturned conventional views of the European conquest of indigenous cultures. American historians and anthropolog

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Author

Ebrary, Inc.;Asselbergs, Florine G. L

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780870818998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities