Aztec Blood: Sacrifice, Empire, and Spanish Conquest

From Lake Texcoco's chinampas rose Tenochtitlan, where Aztec priests scaled Templo Mayor pyramids for heart extractions sustaining cosmic order. This book traces imperial expansion through Flower Wars, pochteca merchants, and tribute codices that fed 200,000 citizens-until Hernan Cortes allied with Tlaxcalans, exploited smallpox, and besieged the island city for 93 days. Drawing from Florentine Co...