The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Aztecs and the Year of the Reed
The year that cortes landed, 15 19, was called the year of the reed in the aztec calendar. There were also little visual coincidences that deepened montezuma's anxiety and reinforced his suspicion that these were gods coming to usurp his throne. The truth seems to have been a lot more nuanced. Regardless of what thoughts were swirling round hin moctezuma's mind, one thing we do know for sure, he needed to learn more about the spaniards. So he sends a small group of emissaries to meet with the enigmatic and dangerous figure from the east.
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