Aztecs
Subtitle: An Interpretation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 30, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780521400930
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Social life and customs; Native Americans - History; History - General History; History: World; Mexico; Latin America - Mexico; Aztecs--Social life and customs; History / Latin America; Aztecs; Rites and ceremonies
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.