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Human Sacrifice at Tenochtitlan

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1984
Many fixed and movable festivals in ancient Mexico were occasions for human sacrifice. The sun in particular was offered hearts and blood, ostensibly because its vitality and, therefore, life itself depended on such oblations. Numerous festivals also included ritual cannibalism, apparently because it was thought to facilitate communion with the gods.
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The Siege and Fall of Tenochtitlan

2000
The final stage of the military conquest of Mexico took place in roughly a year, between the arrival of the Spaniards in Tlaxcala on July 11, 1520, after their flight from Tenochtitlan and their destruction of the Mexica capital and the surrender of the last emperor Cuahtemoc on August 13, 1521.
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Chapter 3 The Tlatoani in Tenochtitlan

2015
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Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Ethnohistory, 2014
The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City's Nahuatl place-names were rescued from historical oblivion by José Antonio Alzate in the eighteenth century and ...
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Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan

Hispanic American Historical Review, 2023
J. Schwaller
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Rome, Tenochtitlan, and Beyond: Comparing Empires Across Space and Time

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
This paper seeks to make a case for expanding the comparative study of premodern empires to include both Old World and New World cases. It explores the utility of concepts such as “empire” and “city-state” for our understanding of ancient Roman and Precolumbian Aztec history.
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The Flower World in Tenochtitlan:

2021
Ángel González López, Lorena Vázquez Vallín   +1 more
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Tenochtitlan, requiem aztèque

2016
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Tenochtitlan

ACM SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings: The art and interdisciplinary programs of SIGGRAPH '96 on - SIGGRAPH '96, 1996
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The Aztecs and the Founding of Tenochtitlan

2022
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