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Summary Of The Victors And Vanquished
The Victors and Vanquished is a book that was edited by Stuart B. Schwartz in the year 2000. From reading the acknowledgements I gathered that Schwartz preparation with the book involved the help of his colleagues too. He even attended Yale University as a Professor and gave a seminar of the conquest of Mexico. However, Schwartz is not a researcher in Mexican ethnohistory, but a man whose goal is to spread new discoveries to people who enjoy culture’s past. The document that Schwartz presented the perspective of the Spaniards and Nahua during the conquest of Mexico. After reading Schwartz book I took note of three things that were important, which was how the Nahua viewed Cortes as God, the Nahua amount of people who fought, and Spaniards
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