Cuitlahua (Cuitlahuatzin), 15, 141, 259, 265, 286, 362, 370
Cuitlahuac, 13, 15
Cuitlahuatzin, 449n
Dallas (TV drama), 251
Dalton, William, 192
Darién, 158
Deary, Terry, 85, 394–95n
De Bry, Theodore, 97, 112–13, 405n
Descent from the Cross, 199
Descola, Jean, 110
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, True History of the Conquest of New Spain, xxvi–xxviii, 4, 78, 89, 253, 261, 285, 291, 293, 338–40
authorial role, xxvii, 373–74n
cannibalism and human sacrifice, 86, 93–94, 96–97
Cortesian legend, 155, 166, 175–76, 185, 187, 188, 190, 238
enslavement, 299–300, 308–10, 311
the Meeting and Surrender, xxv–xxix, 50–51, 60, 62, 63, 338–40
Montezuma’s death, 227
Montezuma’s zoo-complex, 123, 124, 129, 132, 134
Phoney Captivity, 216, 220
title page, xxiv, xxv–xxvi
Díaz de Solís, Juan, 158, 166, 167, 177
Dilworth, W. H., 52–53, 215, 238
Diplomatic gift giving, 127–28, 131–32, 135–36
Diseases, 314–15, 317
Donal, Francisco, 175
Dryden, John, 102–6, 113, 117, 196
Durán, Diego, 41, 90, 97, 100, 109–10, 117, 131, 132, 141, 198, 220
Duverger, Christian, xxvii, 231, 278, 374n
Ecce Homo, 197, 428n
Edict of 1548, 294–96
Ehecatl, 100
Elcano, Sebastián, 274
El Cid, 225, 334
Elliott, John, 174, 178
Encomiendas, 157, 180–81, 275, 302, 303, 305, 306, 324, 325
Enslavement of indigenous people, 296–311, 339, 458n
Epiphany, 42–43
Escalante, Juan de, 190
Escoiquiz, Juan de, 25, 43–44, 56, 75, 196, 230, 244, 245
Escudero, Juan, 171
Escudero, Pedro, 177
Esménard, Joseph-Alphonse, 69
Esquivel, Juan de, 158
Esquivel, Laura, 290
Étienne de Jouy, Victor-Joseph, 69
Etzalqualiztli, 146, 148, 266
Eyewitness reports, xxvii–xxviii, 374n
Fall of Tenochtitlan, 172, 265–70, 311–18. See also Noche Triste
Battle of Otompan, 34–35, 318, 336
conquistador numbers, 311–14
destruction of aviaries by Cortés, 123–24
massacre at festival of Toxcatl, 254, 265, 361, 434n
Phoney Captivity and, 219
raping and looting, 309, 310–11
smallpox, 314–15, 317
Tetzcoca-Tlaxcalteca and, 259–65, 316–17
timeline, xvii–xviii
traditional narrative, 18, 20, 252–53, 311–14
Fat Cacique, 310–11
Faudree, Paja, 16, 381–82n
Featherwork, 111–13, 127, 128, 405–6n
Ferdinand II of Aragon, 55, 164
Fernand Cortez (opera), 69–70, 247, 444n
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, 3, 19
Fernández de Oviedo, Gonzalo, 60–61, 62, 128, 151, 195
Figueroa, Vasco Porcallo de, 168, 303
Filgueira Valverde, José, 189, 216–17
Flight of 1520, 57–58
map, viii–ix
timeline, xvii–xviii
Florentine Codex, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 67–68, 99, 124, 131–32, 199, 204–5, 376n, 386n
Flores, Francisco, 220
Florida, 158
Florin, Jean, 128
Flower Wars, 317, 462n
Fonseca, Juan Rodríguez de, 165, 170–74, 177
Franciscans, 40–41, 82, 84–85, 240–41, 321, 343–44, 353–54, 467–68n
French Revolution, 108, 329–30
Frías, Heriberto, 106
Frieze of American History (Capitol Rotunda), 24, 25–27, 383n
Fuentes, Carlos, xxv, xxvii, 290
Galingo, Juan, 306–7
Gallego, Pedro, 286, 366
Gamboa, Martín de, 220
Garay, Francisco de, 172, 174, 285, 316
García, Gregorio, 45, 242, 402n
Garrido, Juan, 284, 300
Gemelli, Giovanni, 49, 74, 76–77, 109–10, 129, 286, 394n, 427n
Genocide, 89, 328–30, 347–48, 464–65n
Godoy, Diego de, 166, 186
Gómara, Francisco López de, 86, 107, 153–56, 195, 214, 236–37, 277
Cortesian legend, 153–56, 161–68, 235, 236–37, 253, 291, 383n
Huitzilopochtli, 96–97
the Meeting and Surrender, 40, 41, 47, 48, 50, 59, 60, 62, 63, 214, 215
Montezuma’s zoo-complex, 122, 123, 124, 126, 128, 130, 133, 134, 136
myth of Cortesian control, 185, 188, 190, 191
Phoney Captivity, 214, 215, 222
as secretary-hagiographer, 153, 236–37, 417n, 437–38n
violence and brutality, 316
Gónzález, Diego, 305
González, Ruy, 58–59, 61, 317–20, 325
Gopnik, Adam, 281
Grado, Alonso de, 185, 186, 286, 366
Grafton, Sue, 333
Graham, Elizabeth, 92
Granada, 55, 164, 299
Granada, Francisco de, 175, 306
Grant, Ulysses, 393–94n
Graulich, Michel, 198
Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, 90, 93–94, 96–97, 125, 130–31, 139–40, 351
Grijalva, Hernando de, 276, 306, 451n
Grijalva, Juan de, 30–31, 78, 136, 160, 165–69, 172, 325, 361, 366, 395n
Grotius, Hugo, 322
Grounding of ships, 188–91, 425–26n
Gutiérrez, Ana, 306
Gutiérrez, Francisco, 306
Gutiérrez, Pero, 287
Guzmán, Eulalia, 250
Guzmán, Nuno Beltrán de, 272, 275–76, 452n
“Halls of the Montezumas,” 349, 350
Harris, Marvin, 90–91, 398n
Hassig, Ross, 126, 145, 260, 315
Hatuey, 158, 165, 200
Henry VIII of England, 114
Hernán Cortés (opera), 70
Hernán Cortés; or The Return of the White God (Descola), 110
Hernández, Santos, 175–76, 306
Hernández de Córdoba, Francisco, 165–68, 325
Hernández de Puertocarrero, Alonso, 127, 170–71, 176, 185–88, 190
Hernandia (Ruiz de León), 244–45
Hero, Cortés as, 29, 34, 169–70, 242–48, 441–42n
Herod, 42–43, 73, 343
Heroic Poem (Escoiquiz), 43–44, 244
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, 45, 62, 126
Hippolyte, Saint, 56
Hispaniola, 154–59, 164–65, 171, 306
Historical theory, 18–20
History as Encounter, 334–35
History of America (Robertson). See Robertson, William
Holocaust, 326
Holy relics, 135
Honduras, 173, 201, 270, 273, 309–10, 340, 362, 364, 365
Hospital de Jesús, 232, 233–34, 346–48
Houston, Sam, 350
Howard, Robert, 102–6
Huanitzin, Diego de Alvarado, 270, 271, 370
Huaxtepec, 132, 295
Huexotzinco, 10, 209, 210, 462n
Huey Miccailhuitl, 266
Hueytecotzin, Martín, 203
Huey tlahtoani, 140–42, 199, 220, 222, 257
Huitzilihuitl, 200
Huitzilopochtli, 83, 95–99, 152
Aztec representations of, 97–99, 400–401n
Cortés as, 101, 102
festival, 146
Human beings, in zoo-complex, 125–27
Human sacrifice, 77–95, 106, 151, 152
comparative perspective, 89–92
determining numbers, 85–86
European stereotypes of, 77–88, 134, 395–96n
Great Temple evidence, 90, 93–95
Huitzilopochtli and, 95–97
as justification of Conquest, 79–83, 102
Montezuma’s zoo complex and, 134
Inca Empire, 102–3, 237
Indian Emperour, The (play), 103–6, 117, 196, 403n
Indian-Queen, The (play), 102–3
“Indians,” 78, 81, 86–87, 111–12, 296–97, 326–27
enslavement of, 296–311, 339, 458n
Invasion of 1519, 181–91, 337–38. See also Cholollan Massacre
April 22 landing, 181–83
burning of ships, 188–91, 425–26n
captains’ documents, 185–88
infighting among Spaniards, 184–86
Itztlolinqui’s story, 201–5
map, viii–ix
march to Cholollan, 208, 209, 210
march to Tenochtitlan, 202–11
the meeting of Cortés and Montezuma. See Meeting, the
Quauhpopocatl, 200–201, 203–4
role of Aztec-Totonac political negotiations, 182–84
timeline, xvi–xvii
Tlaxcalteca battle, 144–45, 205–8
traditional narrative of, 204–5, 208
Isabella I of Castile, 55, 164
Isabella of Portugal, 390n
Itzcoatl, 141
Itzquauhtzin, 199, 224, 225, 226
Itztlolinqui, Juan de Guzmán, 201–5
Ixtlapalapan (Iztapalapa), 12, 14, 15, 218, 255, 261–62
Ixtlilxochitl, 41, 218–19, 258, 341
brief biography of, 362–63
Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Fernando de, 41, 47–48, 117, 138, 198, 203, 209, 259, 260–62
Tetzcoco campaign, 262, 263–65
Iztaccihuatl, 10, 379
“Jackal,” 124, 409n
Jamaica, 158, 339, 364
January-August campaign of 1521, xviii, 255–56
Jayme the Conquistador, 243–44
Juana of Castile, 186
Juárez, Catalina. See Suárez, Catalina
Julius Caesar, 188, 189, 212, 236–38
“Just war,” 61, 81, 237, 330, 393–94n
Keats, John, 156–57, 418n
Keegan, John, 229
Kendall, George Wilkins, 349
Kislak Paintings, 27–28, 30–35, 197, 384–85n
Krauze, Enrique, 193, 346
Language and label, xii, 359–60
La Noche Triste. See Noche Triste
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, 58–61, 83, 94, 136, 150, 193, 249–50, 266, 334
Cortés-Velázquez feud, 163–64, 187
Huitzilopochtli, 96–97
the Meeting and Surrender, 39–40, 58–61
the Requirement, 16, 381–82n
violence and slavery, 78, 81, 92, 318–19, 320
Lasso de la Vega, Gabriel, 50–51, 107, 152, 156, 243–44, 416n, 442n
León-Portilla, Miguel, 352
León y Gama, Antonio de, 84
Library of Montezuma, 129–30
Limón, Humberto, 332
Llerena, García de, 327, 464n
Loaysa, Jofre García de, 274
Lockhart, James, 63–64, 392n
López, Benito, 340
López, Jerónimo, 343
López, Pedro, 220
Louis XIV of France, 137
Luther, Martin, 151–52, 241
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 191, 213, 238–39, 438–39n
MacNutt, Francis, 198, 219, 227, 322, 333
Madariaga, Salvador, 162, 168, 243
Magaloni, Diana, 199
Magellan, Ferdinand, 274
Malinche. See Malintzin
Malintzin, 181, 287–93, 307, 332
brief biography of, 363
Cholollan Massacre, 208–9
as interpreter, 12, 32, 44, 184
Kislak Paintings, 32, 155
in literature, 65, 70, 197, 247, 288–91, 293
pregnancy of, 287, 454n
prophecy story, 44–45
use of term, xiii
Mandeville, John, 77
Manuel, Francisco, 301
Marine Corps, U.S., 350
Martín, Alonso de, 185
Martín, Benito, 171
Martyr d’Anghiera, Peter, 36, 78, 96
Massacres, 319–30. See also Cholollan Massacre, Tepeaca massacre, Toxcatl
Mass murder, 226, 435n
Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo, 93, 333
Matrícula de Tributos, 129, 142–43
Matryoshka (Russian nesting doll), 298, 299, 304
Maurin, Nicolas-Eustache, 70, 247, 248, 290, 352, 444n, 455n
Mecateca, Andrés, 203
Medellín, Spain, 234
Medici, Cosimo de’, 113
Mediterranean campaign, 277
Meeting, the, xxviii–xxix, 14–22, 25–71, 211–12
accounts of, 36–46, 62–65
the Ambush, 50–53
anniversary of, 231–32
concept of justification, 56–62
Cortés’s themes of, 11–12
dating, 335
Díaz’s True History, xxiv, xxv–xxix, 50–51, 338–40
the embrace, 15, 33, 50, 215, 345–46
events prior to, 9–12, 143–48, 183
first moments of, 15
historical theory of, 18–20
location of, 345–48
as milestone moment, 18–22, 25
Montezuma as the Coward of, 46–50, 431–32n
Montezuma’s speech, 15–18, 45, 46, 50, 51, 52, 59–63, 75, 101–2, 343, 344–45
Nahua account or perspective, 47–49
the Prophecy, 40–46, 52, 68, 111
the Requirement, 16, 61, 381–82n, 450n
role of interpreters, 12, 184, 185
surrender of Montezuma. See Surrender, the
traditional narrative of, 18–22, 25–27, 335
triumphal entry, 54–59
Melgarejo, Bartolomé, 301–2
Mencia de la Cruz, 201
Mendieta, Gerónimo de, 151–52, 241, 321
Mendoza, Antonio de, 101, 201, 237, 270, 303
Mendoza, Diego Hurtado de, 276
Mesoamerica
use of term, 359
warfare in, 92, 207
Mesoamericans, use of term, 359–60
Mestizaje, 234–35
Mexica, use of term, xii, 359, 360
Mexicana (Lasso de la Vega), 50–51, 107
Mexican-American War, 26-27, 70-71, 347, 349–51
Mexican nationalism, 250–51
Mexican patriotism, 83–84, 101
Mexican Revolution, 46, 250
Mexicatl Cozoololtic, 48
Mexico City, 347–54, 466n
triumphal arches, 83–84
México Conquistada (Escoiquiz), 25, 43–44, 56, 75, 196, 230, 245
Miccailhuitontli, 266
Milton, John, 251
Miralles, Juan, xxvii
Mixton War, 201, 361
Moctezuma. See Montezuma
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler (exhibition), 114
Moctezuma
Isabel. See Tecuichpochtzin
Leonor Cortés, 286, 454n
Moluccas, 274–75, 276
Monjaraz brothers, 175
Monogamy, 448n
Monroy, Alonso de, 176
Montaigne, Michel de, 90
Montanus, Arnoldus, 49, 82, 108, 113
Montejo, Francisco de, 127, 166, 170, 171–77
myth of Cortesian control, 185–88, 190
Monterde, Francisco, 45–46
Montezuma
accession and coronation, 140–43, 413–14n
bait-and-switch strategy, 341–43
brief biography of, 363
captivity. See Phoney Captivity
collections of, 127–31. See also Montezuma, zoo-collection complex of
contradictory personality threads, 102–14
the Coward, 40, 46–50, 67, 107, 140, 431–32n
death of. See Montezuma, death of
Dryden’s depictions, 102–6
> events prior to the Meeting, 9–12, 143–48, 183
the Fearful, 109–13, 211
the Feathered, 112–13
library of, 129–30, 133
the Magnificent, 107–11, 113, 250
meeting Cortés. See Meeting, the
the Monster, 85–88, 106–7, 111
name glyph, 140, 143
physical and personality descriptions, 414–15n
self-image, 138–41, 143
surrender of. See Surrender, the
treasure of, 35, 127–28, 170–71, 304, 459–60n
use of term, xii–xiii, 360
weeping and tears, 215, 431–32n
Montezuma (opera), 70, 188, 197, 351–53, 428n
Montezuma, death of, 193–200, 426–29n
assigning intent and blame, 195–98
burial, 198–99
Cortés’ Second Letter, 194–95
“Indian version,” 197–98
murder by Spaniards, 225–28
suicide variant, 196–97
Montezuma, zoo-collection complex of, 118–39, 342–43, 353–54
archaeological evidence, 124–25, 130–31, 132–33
Aztec cosmology, 133–37, 138–39
categories, 122–30
early colonial accounts, 119–22, 124–25, 127–28, 133–34
growth dynamic, 130–33
human beings in, 125–27
link with zoos and gardens in Europe, 134–37, 412–13n
methods of acquisition, 127–28, 131–33, 135
Nuremberg Map, 116, 118–19, 122, 123, 126, 132–33
Spanish explanations for, 133–37
tale of Cortés’ tiger, 137–39
“Montezuma’s Revenge,” 114, 406n
Moral and Natural History of the Indies (Acosta), 97, 198
Morgan, Lewis H., 86–87, 397n
Moses, 239–42, 440n
Motelchiuhtzin, Andrés de Tapia, 270
Motolinía (Toribio de Benavente), 124, 125, 132, 235, 240, 311, 314
Mundy, Barbara, 7
Muñoz Camargo, Diego, 48–49, 240
My Khe massacre, 323
My Lai massacre, 322–24
Nahuas, use of term, xii, 359
Nahuatl language, 344–45, 360
Napoleon Bonaparte, 69–70
Napoleon III, 71
Narváez, Pánfilo de, 276, 336
brief biography of, 363–64
cohort loyalties, 174, 255
Noche Triste, 312
Phoney Captivity, 216, 219, 222–23
pro-Velázquez expedition, 171, 172, 174, 222–23, 254–55, 304, 313, 316, 324, 338–39
Sandoval attack, 254–56
Nazareo, Pablo, 66–67, 71, 392n
Nebel, Carl, 349
Nemontemi, 146
New Galicia, 253, 318, 446n
Nezahualcoyotl, 131, 257, 265, 371
Nezahualpilli, 256, 257–58, 448n
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