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Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, Third edition, Available .
Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, Third edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formats
Examines the history of these accomplished people through a review of the monuments and artifacts they left behind; exploring how their water-control projects worked, the purposes of their ceremonial centers, and the way they built their incredible ancient structures that still stand today. Within a hundred years, the Aztecs established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering city in a lake, a Venice of the New World. The book ends with a dramatic narrative of the Spanish conquest, as seen from the Aztec viewpoint. Richard Townsend gives the complete history of the Aztec civilization’s rise from humble nomads to empire builders.
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