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Long-Distance Traders Known As The Pochteca Also Served As The Aztec Empire's Spies, Gathering Intel On Communities In Other Lands
Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now central and southern Mexico. The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of ...
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U. student receives Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship for research on Mexican Indigenous history
Joshua Anthony, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, was recently awarded the School of Arts and Sciences ...
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Unburying the Aztec
The placement of every excavated object appeared to be governed by an exquisite logic, re-creating the Aztec Empire's entire cosmology. It was at the very bottom of the second offering box that ...
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Bosque de Chapultepec
The main park in Mexico City, Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Forest) was once the temporary home of the Aztec empire after its citizens migrated to modern-day Mexico City in the 13th century.
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Call the Aztec Midwife: Childbirth in the 16th Century
Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries, was suffused with religious customs. It was also highly practical and had ...