The Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan, chinampas, and the complex social and religious structures of the Mexica.
Key Questions
- 1How did the Aztecs maintain control over their tributary states?
- 2What role did human sacrifice play in Aztec religion and politics?
- 3How did the Aztecs engineer a city in the middle of a lake?
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