Due to several setbacks, Cortés did not arrive in the New World until 1506. He took part in the conquest of Hispaniola and Cuba and was granted a large estate of land and Indian slaves for his efforts. This was the encomienda that had worked so well in the conquest of the Canaries (eliminating the indigenous Guanches) but would prove devastating in the New World. Expeditions to Yucatán by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1517 and Juan de Grijalva in 1518 had returned to Cuba with small amounts of gold, and tales of a more ...

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Hernán Cortés, Hernán Cortés - Early life, Hernán Cortés - Arrival in the New World, Hernán Cortés - Beginning his campaign, Hernán Cortés - Relations with the last Aztec emperors, Hernán Cortés - Later life

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Montezuma had the palace of his father Auítzotl prepared to house the Spanish and their native allies. Cortes asked for more gifts of gold as a vassal of Charles V. He also demanded that the two large idols be removed from the main temple pyramid in the city, the human blood scrubbed off, and shrines to the Virgin Mary and St. Christopher be set up in their place. All his demands were met. Cortés then seized Montezuma in his own palace and made him his prisoner as insurance against Aztec revolt, and demanded an enormous ransom of gold, whi ...

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When Cortés returned to New Spain from Honduras, barely alive, he was greeted with joy by a desperate, lawless population. He served a term as Governor-General of "New Spain of the Ocean Sea" (as Juan de Grijalva had named Mexico before Cortés ever saw it), bringing stability and surprising civil rights to the country. But the Castilian bureaucrats began to arrive, undoing all his work, and he left his eldest and favorite son, La Malinche's child Martín Cortés, with a relatively large fortune, eventually returning to Europe to fight in I ...

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Agriculture led to several major changes. It allowed far larger population densities, which organized themselves into states. There are several definitions used for the term "state." Max Weber and Norbert Elias defined the state as an organization of people that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a particular geographic area. The first states appeared in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia BC. Ancient Egypt began as a state without cities. In Mesopotamia there were several city-states. A state needs an army to impose the legitimate use of forc ...

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A major change, described by the great prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe as a "revolution," occurred around the 9th millennium BCE with the adoption of agriculture. Although research has tended to concentrate on the Fertile Crescent area of the Middle East, archaeology in the Americas, East Asia and Southeast Asia indicates that agricultural systems using different crops and animals may well have ...

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Cortés was born in Medellín, in the province of Extremadura, in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain in 1485, the only child of Martín Cortés and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. Through his mother, he was second cousin to Francisco Pizarro, who later conquered the Inca empire of modern-day Peru (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined him to conquer the Aztecs). Cortés took classes at Salamanca but bitterly disappointed his parents by returning home in 1501 at age 16, rather than studying law like his grandfather. He had a choice between seeking fame and glory in a war in Italy, or trying his ...

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Hernán Cortés, Hernán Cortés - Early life, Hernán Cortés - Arrival in the New World, Hernán Cortés - Beginning his campaign, Hernán Cortés - Relations with the last Aztec emperors, Hernán Cortés - Later life

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It is interesting to note that currently the cheapest source of material from which food grade L-cysteine may be purified in high yield is human hair. Its use in food products is widespread worldwide. Some debate that consuming L-cysteine derived from human hair is not actually cannibalism. Some believe cannibalism occurs any time any human body part is intentionally harvested, prepared, and consumed as a food. Few people identify the compulsion to gnaw and bite nails or pieces of skin from fingers as cannibalism, because it is not th ...

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The following names were used for tropical storms and hurricanes that formed in the North Atlantic in 2005. This was the same list used for the 1999 season, with the exceptions of Franklin and Lee, which replaced Floyd and Lenny. The names not retired from this list will be used again in the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. Storms were named Franklin, Lee, Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, and Zeta for the first time in 2005 (the names Alpha and Delta had been previously used in 1972 for tw ...

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The 2005 season has broken numerous records for tropical cyclone activity. Note that systematic monitoring of the Atlantic for tropical cyclones and disturbances that could become tropical cyclones did not commence until 1944.[30] Before then, storms or depressions that did not approach populated land or shipping lanes, especially those of relatively short duration, could have gone undetected. See also: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season statistics and the NOAA list of all the records surpassed ...

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In 1810, the same year that Mexico declared its independence from Spain, the sixteen-year-old joined the Spanish military to the dismay of his father. His commanding officer, Jose Joaquín de Arredondo, taught him much about dealing with rebels. In 1811, Santa Anna was wounded in the arm by a Chichimeca arrow. By 1813, 18-year-old Santa Anna had risen to the rank of first lieutenant. In 1821, he switched sides and declared his loyalty to insurgent leader "El Liberator": Agustín de Iturbide. He rose to prominence by driving the Spanish force ...

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Santa Anna declared himself retired, "unless my country needs me". He decided he was needed when Anastasio Bustamante led a coup overthrowing and killing President Vicente Guerrero. Santa Anna seized power in the confusion and then was elected President by a easily manipulated public in 1833. At first he had little interest in actually running the country, giving a free hand to his vice-president Valentín Gómez Farías, a liberal reformer. Gómez Farías worked hard to root out corruption, which stepped on some powerful toes among t ...

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Spanish is the official language of Mexico and is spoken by the majority of the population. About 7% of the population speak an Amerindian language. The government officially recognizes 62 Amerindian languages. Of these Nahuatl, and Maya are each spoken by 1.5 million, while others, such as Lacandon, are spoken by less than 100. The Mexican government has promoted and established bilingual education progr ...

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Mexico is named after its capital city, whose name comes from the Aztec city Mexico-Tenochtitlan that preceded it. The Mexi part of the name is from Mexitli, the war god, whose name was derived from metztli (the moon) and xictli (navel) and thus meant "navel (probably implying 'child') of the moon". So, Mexico is the home of the people of Mexitli (the Mexicas), co meaning "pla ...

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2005 Atlantic hurricane season - December. December 1 12 am EST (0500 UTC) - The hurricane season officially comes to an end with Tropical Storm Epsilon still active. December 2 11 am AST (1500 UTC) - Tropical Storm Epsilon is upgraded to Hurricane Epsilon. December 4 5 am AST (0900 UTC) - Hurricane Epsilon is operationally downgraded to a tropical storm (later confirmed to be an e ...

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The name "Quetzalcoatl" literally means quetzal-bird snake or serpent with feathers (Amphitere) of the Quetzal (which implies something divine or precious) in the Nahuatl language. The meaning of his local name in other Mesoamerican languages is similar. The Maya knew him as Kukulkán; the Quiché as Gukumatz. The Feathered Serpent deity was important in art and religion in most of Mesoamerica for close to 2,000 years, from the Pre-Classic era until the Spanish conquest. Civilizations worshiping the Feathered Serpent included the Olmec, the Mixtec, the Toltec, the Aztec(who adopted it fr ...

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Quetzalcoatl, Quetzalcoatl - Antecedents, Quetzalcoatl - Origins, Quetzalcoatl - The cult, Quetzalcoatl - Moctezuma Controversy, Quetzalcoatl - Atributes, Quetzalcoatl - In archeology, Quetzalcoatl - Modern media

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It is generally accepted that the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II initially believed the landing of Hernán Cortés in 1519 to be Quetzalcoatl's return. This has debated by historian Victor Frank. He points that the Quetzalcoatl-Cortés conncetion is asserted in no documents created independent of post-Conquest Spanish influence, and there is little proof of a pre-Hispanic belief in Quetzalcoatl's return. Most documents expounding this theory are of entirely Spanish origin, such as Cortés's letters to Charles V of Spain, in which Cortés goes to great pains to present the naïve gullibility of the Mexic ...

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Quetzalcoatl, Quetzalcoatl - Antecedents, Quetzalcoatl - Origins, Quetzalcoatl - The cult, Quetzalcoatl - Moctezuma Controversy, Quetzalcoatl - Atributes, Quetzalcoatl - In archeology, Quetzalcoatl - Modern media

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H.P. Lovecraft mentions the mysterious and long lost continent of Mu in several of his works. Mu is identified with Lemuria in the Illuminatus! trilogy of Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ...

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1901 - January-March. January 3 - Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam (d. 1963) January 4 - CLR James, Trinidad-born writer and journalist (d. 1989) January 14 - Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971) January 16 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973) January 16 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988) January 26 - Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988) January 29 - E. P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (d. 1989) Ja ...

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The following names were used for named storms that formed in the north Atlantic in 1998. The names not retired from this list were used again in the 2004 season. This is the same list used for the 1992 season except for Alex, which replaced Andrew. Storms were named Alex, Lisa, Mitch, and Nicole for the first time in 1998. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. Alex Bonnie Charley Danielle Earl Frances Georges HermineSee also:

1998 Atlantic hurricane season, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Storms, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Alex, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Bonnie, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Charley, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Danielle, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Earl, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Frances, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Georges, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Tropical Storm Hermine, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Ivan, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Jeanne, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Karl, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Lisa, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Mitch, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Hurricane Nicole, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - 1998 storm names, 1998 Atlantic hurricane season - Retirement

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Forecasts of hurricane activity are issued before each hurricane season by noted hurricane expert Dr. William M. Gray and his associates at Colorado State University, and separately by forecasters with the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Dr. Gray's team defines the average number of storms per season (1950 to 2000) as 9.6 tropical storms, 5.9 hurricanes, and 2.3 hurricanes reaching or exceeding Category 3 strength. A normal season, as defined by NOAA, has 6 to 14 named storms, with 4 to 8 of those reaching hurricane strength, and 1 to 3 reaching or ...

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The season began very quickly, with seven tropical storms and two major hurricanes forming before August, setting numerous records for number and strength of storms. The season ended up breaking 16 records for earliest forming storms; for example, the fifth storm of the season, Emily, formed on July 11, well before any other fifth storm in a season. The trend did not let up, and more storms formed in October than any other month in the year, even though the hurricane season traditionally peaks in September. There were 27 named storms, surpas ...

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Mexico is predominantly Roman Catholic (about 89% of the population), with 6% adhering to various Protestant faiths (mostly Pentecostal), and the remaining 5% of the population adhering to other religions or professing no religion. Some of the country's Catholics (notably those of indigenous background) syncretize Catholicism with various elements of Aztec or Mayan religions. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) has a growing presence in the major border cities of northeastern Mexico, and over 1 million members ...

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