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A History of the World in 100 Objects

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The Churches of Santa Barbara and Santa Anna Dominate the Landscape on Our Map

The two new churches of Santa Barbara and Santa Anna dominate the landscape on our map. One of them has clearly been built on top of a destroyed native temple. 500 temples have been destroyed and more than 26,000 figures of demons burned. Names and places are given in a mixture of Spanish and the local Nahuatl language.

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