HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Andreas Vesalius, La Malinche, Quetzalcoatl
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What: published a medical book called on the fabric of the human body that showed drawings of the body in great detail. What: showed that the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood. What: emperor of the aztecs who fought cortes and the spaniard forces. Tried to sway the spaniards to leave with gifts of gold and silver however this only drove them to war. He feared cortes was quetzalcoatl the aztec ruler-god. What: spanish conqueror who sunk his ships after receiving gifts of gold. Tenochtitlan the most beautiful city in the world. He took montezuma prisoner and eventually he was killed. This led to aztec revolt and cortes had to run but he returned with a native american army that destroyed tenochtitlan and created the spanish capital city of the colony. How: he had the help of dona marina a local who guided him and his army. What: daring spanish treasure hunters such as cortes.
