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The Aztec empire's collapse shows why ruling through coercion and force fails
When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state ...
The Aztec Empire was one of the most dominant forces the world had ever seen, but it would fall from grace in a span of two ...
Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan, by Stefan Rinke, Oxford University Press, 328 pages. Contemporary historiography aims above all to treat native peoples seriously, in ...
Setting out for New Spain and the serendipitous gift of language -- The battle with the Tabascans and the acquisition of La Malinche -- Montezuma's message -- The gambler stakes all : "either win the ...
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Bones do not lie: Archaeologists confirm Aztecs use captive animals for ritual sacrifice
In the Florentine Codex, missionary Bernardino de Sahagún famously documented the existence of the ...
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