DK Eyewitness Aztec is a spectacular and informative guide to the rise and fall of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas, who built vast empires and left behind a legacy of mystery and wonder. Incredible colour photographs offer your child a unique "eyewitness" view of these amazing civilisations. Show your child how jewellery was made, and learn what kind of food the Aztecs ate, how the Incas built their homes, and how the Mayan calendar worked. Great for projects or just for fun, make sure your child learns everything they need to know about the Aztecs. Find out more and download amazing clipart images at www.dk.com/clipart.
My later father, Dudley B. Smith, deserves acknowledgment for providing pickup trucks for our fieldwork in Morelos. My understanding of Aztec civilization has benefited greatly from interaction with my colleagues.
After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenamaxtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire.
How did it grow into one of the largest cities in the world at that time? Was their mysterious homeland of Aztlan a real place? If so, where was it? What's this story about an eagle on a cactus eating a rattlesnake?
... Series 484 (Oxford: BAR, 1989); Olivier, Mockeries and Metamorphoses; López Austin, Tamoanchan, Tlalocan; Read, Time and Sacrifice; Levine, Pantheism; James W. Dow, “Central and North Mexican Shamans,” in Mesoamerican Healers, ed.
Students are taught that the Aztecs were destroyed by Hernán Cortéz, the conqueror of Mexico.
The fundamental concepts of ancient Mexico presented and examined in this book have been taken from more than ninety original Aztec documents.
Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life.
Spared from a death sentence by a gunmaker who buys his pardon for his skills with gunpowder, orphan Juan Martez becomes the colony's finest gunmaker and hides the truth about his native Aztec heritage while secretly working for the Mexican ...
The Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. A nomadic culture, the Aztecs eventually settled...
... people born on Five Lizard : Jan 1 , 1735j , Paul Revere , American silversmith , engraver and patriot Mar 21 , 1806g , Benito Pablo Juárez , president and hero of Mexico ( 1861-63 , 1867-72 ) Jan 30 , 1846g , Francis H. Bradley ...