Aztec Imperial Strategies

“The only other map of the Aztec Empire was published in 1952 and it really made some questionable assumptions. We decided we needed to redo this and map the empire, not from the point of view of the Aztec armies marching out from Tenochtitlan, but rather from the point of view of local communities and how they were conquered, how they were incorporated into the empire, and how they related to the empire, the kind of taxes they paid. When we mapped the empire from the ground up, we found something new.” Read more...

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Michael E. Smith