Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this anniversary, a special issue of Arqueología Mexicana was published, bringing new ...

Five centuries later, the pattern that destroyed Tenochtitlan shows up anywhere power rests on coercion over cooperation. Fear keeps subjects in line, until you need allies. The Aztec Empire spent a ...

The story of the fall of the Aztec empire is a compelling human drama that has all to often been oversimplified into a story of perceived technological or cultural advantage. For centuries, Western ...

The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover. The Spanish called her Marina, pre-Hispanic peoples knew her as Malintzin and later she was ...

From the distance of five centuries we often look back to the conquest of Mexico as an all-out defeat for Aztec civilization, a victory by scrappy Spanish conquistadors over the awed and unprepared ...

The shadow empires: imperial state formation along the Chinese-Nomad frontier / Thomas J. Barfield -- Written on water: designs and dynamics in the Portuguese Estado da Índia / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- ...

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Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien.