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The Aztecs and Tenochtitlan
This is the Mexican village of Mexcaltitan. It is built on an island in a lake very much like Tenochtitlan only much smaller. Legend has it that it was the Aztlan of the Aztecs, their home city and birthplace from where they set out on their pilgrimage in 1091 that led them to the founding of Tenochtitlan. This 1524 map depicts the thriving Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, based on the eyewitness account of Hernán Cortés. Map of ‘The Valley of Tenochtitlan as seen by Cortez’ published in 1869 by…
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