Pre-Columbian and Colonial America: Texts and contexts

Pre-Columbian and colonial America refers to aspects of historical character occurred in American territory. It is configured from concerns to the past, and how the different cultures are articulated in a diverse and extensive geography unknown to Europeans until the fifteenth century. In this way, events of the Aztec, Mayan and Quechua cultures are presented, as well as the events experienced by the European explorers and conquerors who made America their nuclear space, which brought them great fame in the pages of universal history. The text is also shaped, in addition, from inquiries to writing facets such as those developed by the poet Nezahualcoyotl; to the Chilam Balam, a work that relates the facts and historical circumstances of the Mayan civilization. Likewise, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga and La Araucana, exposes from an epic eximia the war of the Spaniards against the Araucanian Indians during the conquest of Chile, in the XVI century.