Ambivalent Conquests Iga Clendinnen Summary

While reading a book it is sometimes hard to tell if the information the author is supplying is credible enough to take in mind. They supply no factional information or fully explain their reasoning towards making so many assumptions. With Ambivalent Conquests it was the complete opposite for the reason of experience. Inga Clendinnen not only studied the Mayan culture and religious practices but the Aztecs and various Latin American cultures. In fact she was a former historian and archeologist.

Inga Clendinnen put a picture in my head as a reader of what it was like back in 1517. The images of the surprise attack on the Spanish by the Indians in the beginning of the book were especially vivid. Clendinnen explains , “Then as they drew level with some brush covered hillocks the chief shouted, and Indian warriors, crested and painted, bodies swathed in quilted cotton armor, and armed with stones, bows and arrows, and flit- studded lances, leapt from hiding and attacked” (Clendinnen 7). This statement painted the image of the ambush in my head as if I were there myself.
They supply no factional information or fully explain their reasoning towards making so many assumptions. With Ambivalent Conquests it was the complete opposite for the reason of experience. Inga Clendinnen not only studied the Mayan culture and religious practices but the Aztecs and various Latin American cultures. In fact she was a former historian and