Aztecs
Subtitle: An Interpretation (Canto)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521485852
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; Reference; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Mexico; Rites and ceremonies; Anthropology - General; Latin America - Mexico; Aztecs - Social life and customs; History / Latin America; Aztecs; Social life and customs
First sentence: When early in November of 1519 Cortes and his Spaniards struggled through a snowy pass in the pineclad mountains, past the elegant cones of the twin volcanoes Popocatepetl, 'Smoking Mountain', and Iztaccihuatl, 'White Woman', and made their descent into the wide shallow bowl of the Valley of Mexico, they entered a landscape unlike any they had encountered in the New World.