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Название: The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
Автор(ы): Barbara Mundy
Издательство: University of Texas Press
Серия: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and L
Год: 2015
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 107 MB
The 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 shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cort?s and his followers conquered the city. Cort?s boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." But was it?