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an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure In historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec thriller, and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. empire and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can “I cured only with gold.” —Hernán Cortés be is the story of a lost kingdom—a complex and Conquistador civilization where floating gardens, immense wealth, sophisticated reverence for art stood side by side with bloodstained temples and gruesome rites of human sacrifice. It’s the story of Montezuma and spiritual, enigmatic, and doomed to misunderstand the —proud, he thought a god. Epic in scope, as entertaining as it is stranger Conquistador is history at its most riveting. enlightening, Townsend gives the complete history of the Aztec Richard rise from humble nomads to empire builders. civilization’s a hundred years, the Aztecs established the largest empire Within Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, in city in a lake, a Venice of the New World. The book shimmering with a dramatic narrative of the Spanish conquest, as seen ends the Aztec viewpoint. 16 color and 154 black-and-white from illustrations HERNAN CORTES, KING CONQUISTADOR: AND THE LAST STAND OF THE AZTECS MONTEZUMA, AZTECS (THIRD EDITION) THE PEOPLES AND PLACES) (ANCIENT
capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of The largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a the lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with shallow 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the another shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which lake over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his extended conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of followers that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." Spain CHACO MERIDIAN: ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF POLITICAL THE RELIGIOUS POWER IN THE ANCIENT SOUTHWEST AND this return to his lively, provocative reconceptualization of the In of Chaco Canyon and its monumental 11th-century meaning Stephen H. Lekson expands—over time and distance— structures, understanding of the political and economic integration of the our Southwest. American argument that Chaco did not stand alone, but rather was Lekson’s first of three capitals in a vast networked region incorporating the of the Pueblo world has gained credence over the past 15 most Here, he marshals new evidence and new interpretations to years. the case for ritual astronomical alignment of monumental further and cities, great ceremonial roads, and the shift of the structures capital first from Chaco Canyon to the Aztec Ruins site regional then to Paquimé, all located on the same longitudinal and meridian. DEATH OF AZTEC TENOCHTITLAN, THE LIFE OF THE CITY MEXICO But was it?
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