The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

“The Aztec Empire had scribes. It was a bureaucratic Empire. They had people keeping track of taxes and activities and peoples. And after the Spanish conquest, the Aztec scribes and nobles quickly saw that the European alphabet was very useful, and they adapted it to the Nahuatl language very shortly after the Spanish conquest. They started to produce documents in a written form using the European alphabet, but in the Nahuatl language… Lockhart really opened this up.” Read more...

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