The Technology of the Aztecs [1 ed.] 9781502622402, 9781502622396

The Aztecs were people connected to the land and forests of South America. Unknown to Europeans prior to the 1500s, they

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The Technology of the Aztecs [1 ed.]
9781502622402, 9781502622396

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The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec em

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In this rich and surprising book, Frances F. Berdan shines fresh light on the enigmatic ancient Aztecs. She casts her ne

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A wealth of new archaeological findings and interpretations has sparked a richer understanding of the Aztecs, dispelling

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This book was the first serious scholarly attempt in nearly a century to put in narrative form the exciting and importan

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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to f

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This book was the first serious scholarly attempt in nearly a century to put in narrative form the exciting and importan

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Berdan's book covers the compelling story of a complex, imperial society in Central Mexico during the 15th and 16th

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From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explor

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