La Capital: The Biography of Mexico CityRandom House, 1988 - 640 σελίδες The history of Mexico City is a sweeping, dramatic saga of individuals confronting victory and defeat, opulence and misery, euphoria and catastrophe. A colorful panorama, told by a Latin American correspondent of the New York Times. 16 pages of photos. |
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... Tenochtitlán , reed and mud were heaped on top until a solid strip of land was formed . Not all the water was drained out of the chinampas . The lake was allowed to seep into the expanding island of Tenochtitlán along a series of ...
... Tenochtitlán , reed and mud were heaped on top until a solid strip of land was formed . Not all the water was drained out of the chinampas . The lake was allowed to seep into the expanding island of Tenochtitlán along a series of ...
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... Tenochtitlán in the rainy season when the other water bodies drained into it . A major catastrophe occurred in 1449 , during the rule of Motecuhzoma I , when Lake Texcoco's " waters rose so high that the entire city was inundated and ...
... Tenochtitlán in the rainy season when the other water bodies drained into it . A major catastrophe occurred in 1449 , during the rule of Motecuhzoma I , when Lake Texcoco's " waters rose so high that the entire city was inundated and ...
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... Tenochtitlán as they arrived : under the cover of darkness and in disguise , so that neither their own subjects nor the Aztec warriors and commoners would suspect their complicity . The Flower Wars effectively stifled the widespread ...
... Tenochtitlán as they arrived : under the cover of darkness and in disguise , so that neither their own subjects nor the Aztec warriors and commoners would suspect their complicity . The Flower Wars effectively stifled the widespread ...
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Prologue 3 | 3 |
The Valley and Its First Inhabitants | 11 |
The Cannibal Empire | 26 |
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