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Aztec & Colonial Mexico: 1300–1821
Mexico · 1300–1821 · exact time + place
A mix of powerful indigenous empires and Spanish colonial rule — rich legends, conquest tales, and revolutionary movements, from Tenochtitlan to independence. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Mexico and 1300–1821 already set.
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Amor Real
True love threatens to tear a family apart in this epic Mexican serial set in the 1800s. Rich and beautiful Matilde falls in love with Adolfo, but her mother, Augusta, disapproves of the relationship when she learns…
The Legend of the Nahuala
Leo San Juan an insecure child of nine years old lives eternally frightened by horror stories that Nando tells his older brother. Within these stories it is 'The Legend of Nahuala' according to which an old abandoned…
Hernán
The Spanish "Conquistador" Hernán Cortés arrives in the shores of what today is México and faces both local demons and those who've sailed with him.
Captain from Castile
Spain 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee Pedro friend Juan Garcia and adoring servant girl Catana join…
Cabeza de Vaca
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528 a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca roams across the American continent…
Dispute in Valladolid
Spain conquered the seas found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church…
The Spanish Main
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene. governed by Don Juan Alvardo Spainish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent…
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.Ringing with…
Our Lady of San Juan, Four Centuries of Miracles
In this dramatization the Virgin Mary works a miracle on a girl in 1623 Mexico. Four centuries later a family make a pilgrimage for their own child.
The Brainiac
In 1661 Mexico the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft necromancy and other crimes. As he dies the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of…
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