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An edition of The Aztecs (1992)

The Aztecs

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Today the Aztecs seem a remote, alien people. Warlike and bloodthirsty, they are best known as the practitioners of human sacrifice. Yet their creative achievements are impressive: within the space of a hundred years they established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering city in a lake, a Venice of the New World whose temple-pyramids, elegant plazas and thronging markets defied the descriptive powers of the.

Conquistadors. Richard Townsend presents the first fully rounded portrait of the Aztecs, integrating military, economic and symbolic approaches to reconcile the apparently contradictory aspects of their culture. He begins with a dramatic narrative of the Spanish conquest and then charts the rise of the Aztecs from humble nomads to empire builders. He shows how war and human sacrifice did indeed act as instruments of terror, but also how their deeper significance lay in.

The Aztec belief that the shedding of human blood ensured fertility of the land and renewal of the seasons. Chapters on the ancient deities and festival calendar, the New Fire ceremony and sacred rain-mountains, as well as kingship rites, explore this all-pervading theme in Aztec society of physical and spiritual regeneration. The Aztecs ranges from the everyday life of farmers and priests, artisans and kings, to the sinister spying activities of Aztec traders; from the.

Making of chocolate to battle tactics. Recent discoveries from archaeological excavations are interwoven with the latest results from studies of the monuments, Spanish records and illustrated codices to produce a fresh and definitive new history of a remarkable people.

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Thames and Hudson
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English
Pages
224

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219) and index.

Published in
London
Series
Ancient peoples and places ;, v. 107, Ancient peoples and places (Thames and Hudson) ;, v. 107.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
972/.018
Library of Congress
F1219.73 .T68 1992, F1219.73 .T68 1993

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Pagination
224 p. ;
Number of pages
224

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1572162M
ISBN 10
0500021139
LCCN
91067301
OCLC/WorldCat
26265803
LibraryThing
338527
Goodreads
2946550

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OL526669W

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