CHICANO 188 Study Guide - Final Guide: Aztec Codices, Codex Borgia, Codex Mendoza
21 Oct 2017
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Discuss how the aztecs expressed themselves artistically and intellectually. Be sure to discuss the tlacuiloque (painter scribes), amanteca (featherwork masters), poets, musicians, naturalists, philosophers, chroniclers, and other sages as well as the types of works they created. Manuscripts, representations of poets and musical instruments, featherwork. Masterpieces, naturalists (e. g. , martin de la cruz and his codex badianus), and other sages including poets and chroniclers. Helen ellis, maize, quetzalcoatl, and grass imagery: science in the central mexican codex. Codex mendoza is an aztec codex containing a history of the aztec rulers and their conquests, and description of aztec life. After creation in mexico city it was sent by ship to spain however they were attacked by the french and the codex was taken to france. Andre thevet wrote his name in 5 places on the codex and later bought by an englishman, then passed to samuel purchase, and onto his son. It eventually was deposited into the bodlein library at oxford university.
