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When Cortés and his conquistadors overran the Aztec empire in 1520, they found “a society unlike any they had encountered hitherto,” said Emily Sharpe in The Art Newspaper. The natives of the region ...

The Aztec gods were easy to please. Subjects need only live, serve and obey. Until the gods demanded death, in return for new life. The bloody rise and fall of the Mesoamerican empire, and the gods ...

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