Visions of History: The Aztecs and the Spanish

Comprehensive Unit94 pagesGrade Level: Middle School – High School History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still, there are definitive moments, moments we use as references, because they break our sense of continuity, they change the direction of time. We can look at these events and we can say that after them things were never the same again. – Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride, page 4 According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, history is defined as "a chronological record of significant events usually including an explanation of their causes." Yet reading different accounts of one event in history reveals the complexity of the process of writing history. This process is not just a simple recording of events, but rather a complex process. Like a chemical which reacts with air or water, the history of an event also changes with time, with the introduction of new ideas, and with shifts in the ways of thinking. What are the step