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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 ...
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Dancing the new world : Aztecs, Spaniards, and the choreography of conquest / Paul A. Scolieri

"From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the "Indian" ...
Greek Reporter

The Fall of the Aztec Empire

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 ...
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The Aztecs the history of the Indies of New Spain Translated with notes, by Doris Heyden and Fernando Horcasitas. Introd. by Ignacio Bernal

Translation of Historia de las Indias de Nueva-Espana y islas de Tierra Firme. "Covers the entire Historia de las Indias but does not include the books dedicated to rites and the calendar" Continued 1 ...
Yahoo

How Aztec Mexico was lost in translation: a wild novel revises the Spanish conquest

There was an online ruckus a few months ago when social media users got a taste of Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Iliad,” with some readers bemoaning that it sounded too modern while others ...
Arizona Daily Star

Aztecs' last stand: They ate Spanish hearts out

CALPULALPAN, Mexico — Skeletons found at an unearthed site in Mexico show Aztecs captured, ritually sacrificed and partially ate several hundred people traveling with invading Spanish forces in 1520.