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The Aztecs: The Rise and Fall of the Empire of Tenochtitlan

The Aztecs: The Rise and Fall of the Empire of Tenochtitlan

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ArchaeologyCentral American History

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ISBN13: 9798170794768
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The Aztec empire that met Cortés in 1519 had no code of law, no resident governors, and no army stationed in the lands it ruled. What it had was a schedule: named towns owed named goods at fixed intervals to three allied capitals on a lake, and almost everything else in the state was arranged around collecting on that schedule. This book follows the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan from its founding victory in 1428 to the fall of its capital in 1521, treating it as a functioning government rather than a lost civilization: how tribute was assessed and moved, how the calendar, the market, the nobility, and the priesthood fit into that machinery, and why an empire built this cheaply could expand across two hundred thousand square kilometers in ninety years and then collapse within two.

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