The Essential Diaz: Selections from The Conquest of New SpainIdeally suited for use in swift-moving surveys of World, Atlantic, and Latin American history, this abridgment of Ted Humphrey and Janet Burke's 2012 translation of the True History provides key excerpts from Diaz's text and concise summaries of omitted passages. Included in this edition is a new preface outlining the social, economic, and political forces that motivated the European discovery of the New World. |
Contents
Bernal Díaz del Castillo an Introduction | 1 |
The Captain Hernando Cortés | 6 |
Jerónimo de Aguilar the Lost Spaniard | 12 |
Doña Marina Interpreter | 18 |
First Encounters with Montezumas People San Juan de Ulúa | 23 |
The Totonacs Cortéss First Allies | 31 |
The Tlaxcalans HardWon Allies | 44 |
The Incident at Cholula | 72 |
Montezuma Imprisoned | 96 |
Diego Velázquez Seeks to Regain Control Pánfilode Narváez | 113 |
La Noche Triste the Night of Sorrows | 125 |
The Battle of Otumba and the Return to Mexico | 137 |
The Fall of Tenochtitlan | 176 |
Epil ogue | 195 |
Back Cover | 204 |
The Great Montezuma | 86 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aguilar already arms arrived asked attack battle Bernal Díaz bridges brigantines brought Cacamatzin caciques canoes captaincies captains and soldiers captured carried Castile causeway Cempoala chieftains Cholula cloaks conquest Cortés ordered Cortés’s Cristóbal de olid crossbowmen crossbows Cuba Díaz del Castillo Díaz’s Diego Velázquez doña Marina enemy enter escopeteros everything expedition fat cacique fighting Francisco Francisco de Lugo friends the Tlaxcalans gave give gold Gonzalo de Sandoval Guatemuz heard holy horsemen horses Huichilobos idols Indians Iztapalapa Juan de Grijalva killed knew lances land leave lodgings lord Montezuma Majesty Malinche Maseescaci messengers Mexicans Mexico narváez native night Pánfilo Pánfilo de narváez papas peace Pedro de Alvarado prisoner promises sacrifice sent ships Spain Spaniards spears squadrons stones Tacuba talk tell Tendile Tenochtitlan teules Texcoco things Tlaxcalans told Cortés took Totonac town vassals victory Villa Rica wanted warriors wounded Xicotenga