The Purépecha Empire, also known by the term Iréchikwa, was a polity in pre-Columbian Mexico.Its territory roughly covered the geographic area of the present-day Mexican state of Michoacán, as well as parts of Guanajuato, Guerrero, and Jalisco.At the time of the Spanish conquest, it was the second-largest state in Mesoamerica.. The empire was founded in the …

The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Conquest of Mexico or the Spanish-Aztec War (1519–21), was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.There are multiple 16th-century narratives of the events by Spanish conquistadors, their indigenous allies, and the defeated Aztecs.It was not solely a contest between a small …

Dne 8. února 1517 vyslal Velásquez, guvernér Kuby, Franciska Hernándeze de Córdoba na výzkumnou cestu na západ, kde měl hledat poklady. Sotva Cordóba vyplul na otevřené moře, zahnala ho bouře do neznámých končin. O tři týdny později doplul k nehostinnému pobřeží. Když vystoupil se svými vojáky na pevninu, objevil k svému úžasu indiánskou civilizaci, o níž neměl ...

Michoacán (), oficialmente Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo, es uno de los treinta y un estados que, junto con la Ciudad de México, conforman México.Su capital y su ciudad más poblada es Morelia, antiguamente llamada Valladolid, que lleva su nombre actual en honor a José María Morelos.Está dividido en ciento trece municipios. ...