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S03E05: HUM213 Wk2: Cortés, Aztecs, & the Spanish Conquest: How He Called It Greater Than Seville..Then He Destroyed It
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S03E05: HUM213 Wk2: Cortés, Aztecs, & the Spanish Conquest: How He Called It Greater Than Seville..Then He Destroyed It
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In November 1519, a column of Spanish soldiers came over a mountain pass and found a city built out into the middle of a lake — canals for streets, towers rising from the water, and a market square that held sixty thousand people a day. One soldier wrote that some of the men wondered if they were dreaming it. Within twenty months it was rubble. The strange part: one of the best surviving descriptions of Tenochtitlán was…
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