Tlaxcala - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 16:08:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Tlaxcala - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Smallpox mortality in New Spain. The parish of San Pablo Apetatitlan, 1797-1798 https://historylab.es/smallpox-mortality-in-new-spain-the-parish-of-san-pablo-apetatitlan-1797-1798/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=smallpox-mortality-in-new-spain-the-parish-of-san-pablo-apetatitlan-1797-1798 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:48 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mortalidad-por-viruela-en-nueva-espana-la-parroquia-de-san-pablo-apetatitlan-1797-1798/ Resource showing the last indications of smallpox in New Spain through the parish of San Pablo Apetatitlan. America, like other continents, was also affected by this epidemic

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]]> During the Modern Age, smallpox was an epidemic that decimated numerous populations on the European continent. America’s joining the world-system meant that this territory also became involved in global problems. The resource shows the incidence in New Spain of the last smallpox epidemic of the 18th century in that viceroyalty through the parish of San Pablo Apetatitlan, in the governorate of Tlaxcala. In this rural parish, between December 1797 and December 1798, a total of 75 deaths from smallpox were recorded, most of them indigenous people from this rural area. The author places the epidemic cycle in October 1797 in the city of Puebla, arriving in the jurisdiction of Tlaxcala in the first week of December. Its arrival led to a dramatic increase in mortality in the first few days of its appearance; 91.42% of deaths from the disease were recorded in one month. After the strong impact, social isolation and quarantines were the measures adopted by the authorities.

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]]> Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico https://historylab.es/hernan-cortes-and-the-conquest-of-mexico/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hernan-cortes-and-the-conquest-of-mexico Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:11 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/hernan-cortes-y-la-conquista-de-mexico/ Explanatory video on the figure of Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico

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]]> A 7-minute video in which the figure of Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico are briefly analysed. It is essential to revisit the events that ancient chronicles have left us. What happened between 1519 and the fall of the Mexica Empire constitutes the first Hispanic continental advance in the New World. These events have lent themselves to various mythologies that present the Spaniards as a sort of supermen in shining armour, but also as a predatory band that wiped out an arcadian world. Iván Vélez, with great acuity and critical sense, analyses the complex warlike, juridical, economic and religious aspects that accompanied the conquest, but also the political order that succeeded it. A raw, exciting and extraordinary story about one of the greatest adventures the world has ever seen.

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]]> Hernan https://historylab.es/hernan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hernan Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:23 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/hernan/ Series showing the conquest of New Spain (Mexico) by Hernán Cortés.

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]]> Historical series that narrates the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés, from a non-hagiographic perspective. The historical reconstruction is good, but the continuous jumps in time in the script make it difficult for viewers who do not know the history of the conquest to understand the events. Óscar Jaenada’s performance triggered very conflicting opinions. At the beginning of 2021, only one season has been broadcast, consisting of 8 episodes. There will be a second one, which is pending broadcast.

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