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Aztecs

Meeting in Tenochtitlan between Hernan Cortes
Tudor

Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs

A page of the Codex Borbonicus, an Aztec folding book painted around the time of the Spanish invasion
Medieval

What can the Aztecs tell us about themselves? The secrets of their ‘indigenous annals’

Camilla Townsend
General ancient history

Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history

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'Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs' by Camilla Townsend
Medieval

New take on Aztec history revealed as winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

The three shortlisted finalists for the 2020 Cundill History Prize.
General Modern

Judges reveal the finalists of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

Camilla Townsend on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)
Medieval

Aztecs in their own words

Priest offering the heart taken from a living human victim to the Aztec sun god and god of war, Huitzilopochtli. Print of facsimile from Aztec Codex, published 1904. Human Sacrifice (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
Medieval

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

Pectoral ornament in the form of a double headed serpent, Aztec/ Mixtec, c 1400/1521 (Photo by Getty Images)
Medieval

The Aztecs: everything you wanted to know

Aztec double headed serpent carved in wood and decorated in turquoise mosaic pieces (Universal History Archive / Getty Images)
Medieval

The real Aztecs: brutal, bloodthirsty… and caring?

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In only two years, Hernán Cortés brought about the downfall of an efficient military civilisation through a combination of diplomacy, warfare, tactics, luck and sheer force of personality, writes Caroline Dodds. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Tudor

Cortés and Montezuma: the conquering of Tenochtitlan

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