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Encyclopedia > Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin

Chimalpain Quauhtlehuanitzin (born 1579) was an Aztec noble and historian. He was born in Amecameca (ancient Chalco province) whose formal name was Domingo Francisco de San Anton Muñon. The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. ... The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the door of the Lodge of the Heralds. ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... Amecameca is a municipality in México State, Mexico. ...

The Annals of Chimalpain.
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The Annals of Chimalpain.

Of pure Indigenous descent, he received a Spanish education at the Franciscan College of Santiago Tlatelolco of Mexico. He wrote on the history of Mexico and other neighboring nations in the Nahuatl and Spanish languages. Mayas at San Juan Chamula, Chiapas Mexico has defined itself, in the second article of its constitution, as a pluricultural nation, in recognition of the diverse ethnic groups that constitute it. ... // Prehistoric times Although there are tantalizing fragments of evidence suggesting human habitation of Mexico more than 20,000 years ago (see Tlapacoya archaeological site), there is no uncontested evidence that humans arrived in Mexico earlier than ~15,000 BP. One of those asserting a date of 28,000 years is... Nahuatl (pronounced in two syllables, NA-watl ) is a term applied to some members of the Aztecan or Nahuan sub-branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ...


He recorded the 1610 and 1614 visits of Japanese delegations to Mexico (led by Tanaka Shosuke and Hasekura Tsunenaga, respectively) in his diary (Annals of his time). Tanaka Shosuke (田中勝助, Tanaka Shōsuke, also Tanaka Shousuke) was an important Japanese technician and trader in metals from Kyoto during the beginning of the 17th century, who is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610. ... Hasekuras portrait during his mission in Rome in 1615, by Claude Deruet, Coll. ...


Bibliography

  • Historia mejicana antigua, que comprende los sucesos y sucesión de reyes hasta el año 1526
  • Crónica de Méjico desde el año 1068 hasta el de 1597 de la era vulgar
  • Apuntamientos de sucesos desde 1064 hasta 1521
  • Relaciones originales de los reinos de Aculhuacan, Mejico y otras provincias desde muy remotos tiempos
  • Relación de la conquista de Méjico por los espanoles.
  • Annals of His Time: Don Domingo De San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-5454-3


 
 

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