Acknowledgements

This session draws on material written by Dr Neil Younger (The Conquest of Mexico), Professor Paul Lawrence (Imperial Ideologies) and Dr John Slight (Power / The Ottomans and the Architecture of Empire). Editing by Dr Katie Donington.

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Figure 2: ‘The Conquest of Tenochtitlán, by Hernán Cortés, 1521’ by an unknown artist. Image: Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/

Figure 3: Georges Dascher https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dascher_Colonies_cahier_vers_1900.jpg

Figure 4: 1537 Ottoman map of Constantinople https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matrak%C3%A7%C4%B1_Nasuh_-_%C4%B0stanbul.jpg

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