The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1
Conflicted: A History Podcast
Tine Chitlan, the Aztec Capital of Mexico
Where mexico city is to day, there used to be a huge lake called tex coco. And in the centre of that lake lay the aztec capital of tine chitlan. In the year 15 19 tinechitlan was, by some estimates, the largest metropolis in the world. But more importantly, where was the money? Where was the gold? And had cortez given the king of spain his rightful cut? What secrets were cortes and his friends hiding? Well, that story starts many years earlier in mexico.
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