The Aztecs: everything you wanted to know

Caroline Dodds Pennock responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the Mesoamerican civilisation

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Published: August 23, 2020 at 12:32 pm

In the latest of our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics, historian Caroline Dodds Pennock responds to listener queries and popular search enquiries about the Mesoamerican civilisation, including a discussion of the practice of human sacrifice.

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