Mexica attitudes toward horses

Write a 4-5 essay on the following theme. You may use materials assigned in class as well as lecture and discussion section notes, but no outside sources are allowed.

Hernán Cortés and his men often remarked that the Mexica were terrified of Spanish horses, which they believed were gods. Offer a different interpretation of Mexica attitudes toward horses.

 

Guidelines:

To cite quotations or information from the readings or lectures, use footnotes. The footnotes will suffice; you do not need a bibliography or works cited page. Your word processor will have an Insert Footnote function (it might be under a menu titled “References” or “Insert”). Bring your cursor to the space just after the last punctuation in the relevant sentence, click Insert Footnote, and your word processor will create a superscript number there and bring you to the space at the bottom of the page to write up the footnote.[1]

  • For our footnotes in this class, we’ll use Chicago Style citation format. Below are examples that you may use as a model, adjusting the page numbers as needed.
    Tim Ingold, “Rethinking the Animate, Re-Animating Thought,” Ethnos, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Mar., 2006), 11.
  • Carol Delaney, “Columbus’s Ultimate Goal: Jerusalem,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), 270.
  • Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera (1493). [No page number because none provided]
  • Christopher Columbus’s Book of Prophecies (c. 1502), excerpt. [No page number because none provided]
  • Bernardino de Sahagún, The Feast Day Called Quecholli, 4. [You may use the electronic page numbers provided by Canvas or the text’s original page numbers.]
  • Bernardino de Sahagún, How the Gods Had Their Beginnings, 5. [You may use the electronic page numbers provided by Canvas or the text’s original page numbers.]
  • Hernán Cortés, Third Letter of Relation to King Charles V, May 15, 1522, excerpts, 4.
  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1568), excerpts, 3.
  • Alexander Haskell, “Lecture: Divided-World Cosmologies.” [no page number needed for a lecture]
  • After your first full citation of a text or a lecture, you may use a shortened version for all subsequent references to that text or lecture. Here are some examples:
  • Ingold, “Rethinking the Animate, Re-Animating Thought,” 12.
  • Delaney, “Columbus’s Ultimate Goal: Jerusalem,” 271.
  • Pope Alexander VI’s Inter Caetera.
  • Christopher Columbus’s Book of Prophecies.
  • Sahagún, Feast Day Called Quecholli, 5.
  • Sahagún, How the Gods Had Their Beginnings, 6.
  • Cortés, Third Letter to Charles V, 5.
  • Díaz del Castillo, True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 3.
  • Haskell, “Lecture: Divided-World Cosmologies.”