9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The History of the Aztecs
Historians have a wide variety of sources to draw from, many written by mashika people who actually witnessed life before contact with europeans. But one problem for historians is that these eye witness accounts were all written after contact and most several decades after the events. Bernardo de sahagun gathered together as many older mashika people as he could find who still remembered the age of the aztecs. He wrote down their memories and collected them in an extraordinary book called a general history of the things of new spain,. or the historia gene al. On this episode, we're joined by jan garcia, a native speaker of ratesca nawatel from mexico
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