Malinche biography video about muhammad

In the early 1500s in Mesoamerica, modern-day Mexico, a very young child who would come to be known as La Malinche was sold into slavery by her own family.

Malinche biography video about muhammad

Through a series of curious circumstances, she began working as a translator and cultural interpreter for Hernán Cortés and became one of the most famous (or infamous) characters in the story of Spain’s conquest of Mexico.

For the most part, we have to look at the details of her life through the lives of the people around her, then turn our heads sideways and squint because how she is seen, depends on the angle of your, or historians, view.

Even her name is shrouded in mystery: was she Malintzin, Malina, Marina, Doña Marina, or La Malinche? She was called all of those, but her true, original name is lost to history.

SHOWNOTES ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, COME BACK LATER FOR ALL OF OUR MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS

Time Travel With The History Chicks

Books!

KIDS:

We