EPISODE · Nov 21, 2021 · 48 MIN
Montezuma: The Black Mexican King Of America! (Moctezuma Xocoyotzin)
from Real Black Consciousness Forum · host Big Vjay
#Montezuma #BlackMexican #BlackAmerican #Moors Source 1: The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers... By William O. Blake · 1860 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Encyclopedia_of_History_Bio/urg2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=montezuma+Indian+complexion&pg=PA428&printsec=frontcover Source 2: The Karankawa Indians, the Coast People of Texas By Albert Samuel Gatschet, Alice William Bridges Oliver, Charles Adrian Hammond · 1888 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Karankawa_Indians_the_Coast_People_o/1PXY5rWgZA4C?hl=en&gbpv=0 Source 3: Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts During the Session of the General Court https://www.google.com/books/edition/Documents_Printed_by_Order_of_the_House/MIwvwRwduzIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&tbm=bks Email the podcast: [email protected] https://cash.app/$BlackConsciousness Join us as we have a conversation about the Black Mexican King Of the Americas Moctezuma Xocoyotzin (c. 1466 – 29 June 1520) whose name is has variant spellings which include Motecuhzomatzin, Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to retroactively in European sources as Moctezuma II, was the ninth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the sixth Huey Tlatoani or Emperor of the Aztec Empire, reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. The first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. During his reign, the Aztec Empire reached its greatest size. Through warfare, Moctezuma expanded the territory as far south as Xoconosco in Chiapas and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and incorporated the Zapotec and Yopi people into the empire.[1] He changed the previous meritocratic system of social hierarchy and widened the divide between pipiltin (nobles) and macehualtin (commoners) by prohibiting commoners from working in the royal palaces.[1] Though two other Aztec rulers succeeded Moctezuma after his death, their reigns were short-lived and the empire quickly collapsed under them. Historical portrayals of Moctezuma have mostly been colored by his role as ruler of a defeated nation, and many sources have described him as weak-willed, superstitious, and indecisive.[2] His story remains one of the most well-known conquest narratives from the history of European contact with Native Americans, and he has been mentioned or portrayed in numerous works of historical fiction and popular culture.
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#Montezuma #BlackMexican #BlackAmerican #Moors Source 1: The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers... By William O. Blake · 1860 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_American_Encyclopedia_of_History_Bio/urg2AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=montezuma+Indian+complexion&pg=PA428&printsec=frontcover Source 2: The Karankawa Indians, the Coast People of Texas By Albert Samuel Gatschet, Alice William Bridges Oliver, Charles Adrian Hammond · 1888 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Karankawa_Indians_the_Coast_People_o/1PXY5rWgZA4C?hl=en&gbpv=0 Source 3: Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts During the Session of the General Court https://www.google.com/books/edition/Documents_Printed_by_Order_of_the_House/MIwvwRwduzIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&tbm=bks Email the podcast: [email protected] https://cash.app/$BlackConsciousness Join us as we have a conversation about the Black Mexican King Of the Americas Moctezuma Xocoyotzin (c. 1466 – 29 June 1520) whose name is has variant spellings which include Motecuhzomatzin, Montezuma, Moteuczoma, Motecuhzoma, Motēuczōmah, Muteczuma, and referred to retroactively in European sources as Moctezuma II, was the ninth Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and the sixth Huey Tlatoani or Emperor of the Aztec Empire, reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. The first contact between the indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to take over the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. During his reign, the Aztec Empire reached its greatest size. Through warfare, Moctezuma expanded the territory as far south as Xoconosco in Chiapas and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and incorporated the Zapotec and Yopi people into the empire.[1] He changed the previous meritocratic system of social hierarchy and widened the divide between pipiltin (nobles) and macehualtin (commoners) by prohibiting commoners from working in the royal palaces.[1] Though two other Aztec rulers succeeded Moctezuma after his death, their reigns were short-lived and the empire quickly collapsed under them. Historical portrayals of Moctezuma have mostly been colored by his role as ruler of a defeated nation, and many sources have described him as weak-willed, superstitious, and indecisive.[2] His story remains one of the most well-known conquest narratives from the history of European contact with Native Americans, and he has been mentioned or portrayed in numerous works of historical fiction and popular culture.
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