Week 5 Flashcards
Malintzin
Nahua woman, translator
Florentine Codex
The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish. It has 12 volumes and was a collaboration between Nahua speakers and Friar Bernardino de Sahagún
Templo Mayor
main temple in Tenochtitlan
Moctezuma
leader of Tenochtitlan (Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco were two separate cities that merged to form the capital of the Aztec empire)
tzquauhtzin
leader of Tlatelolco (Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco were two separate cities that merged to form the capital of the Aztec empire)
lienzo
a large cloth canvas
Xicotencatl
leader of Tlaxcala
enconchados
oil-on-board paintings with inlaid mother-
of-pearl (Mother of pearl, also known as nacre, is a hard, iridescent, and organic gemstone that lines the interior of some mollusks’ shells)
Noche Triste
sad night
Cuahtemoc
last Mexica ruler
biombo
Asian-inspired folding screen painting