Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- 7 Eurasia after the Mongols
- 8 Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin
- 9 The Americas in the age of indigenous empires
- 10 Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
9 - The Americas in the age of indigenous empires
from Part Two - Macro-regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- 7 Eurasia after the Mongols
- 8 Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin
- 9 The Americas in the age of indigenous empires
- 10 Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores imperial history in the America from early fifteenth to late sixteenth centuries. It focuses on the parallel lives of the three empires, the Aztec, Inca and Spanish, each developing unbeknownst to the others. Inevitable conflict has tended to be a common theme in the history of the Americas in the age of indigenous empires. The reluctance of sixteenth-century Spaniards to believe that Native Americans built their own civilizations is part of a thread of Western thought that survives to this day. Many Mesoamericans lived in cities that featured monumental urban architecture; the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan was a striking example of this phenomenon. The Incas were heirs to the great tradition of civilization in the central Andes. They were a Cuzco-based, Quechua-speaking people. The chapter also explores the expectations that shaped the Spanish Empire in the Americas before the meeting between Moctezuma and Cortes.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 210 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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