Aztecs
Subtitle: An Interpretation
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521446952
Subjects: Anthropology; History: World; History; Sociology; Mexico; General; Aztecs--Social life and customs; History / Latin America; Civilization; Latin America - General
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.