“Discovery & Colonization” themes, terms & concepts

• Rationale/motives for exploration and colonization

• Aztec Empire and art: Tenochtitlan, step pyramids, codex, pictograph

• mestizo

• Missions: adobe, pueblo, “ultra Baroque,” retablo, santos/santeros, bulto, estípe

• European representation of indigenous peoples

• kiva, katchina

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