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Daily Life of the Aztecs

by Jacques Soustelle · 1962

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The Aztecs were fierce, honorable, death-obsessed, and profoundly religious. A famed scholar evokes the life of this complex culture on the eve of its extinction, when the Spanish arrived and conquered them—imprisoning Montezuma and strangling Atahualpa. "It is, without question, the most brilliant, the clearest and most readable portrayal of Aztec life available in any language."—The Observer.

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MexicoMexicoMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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