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Post by The Oracle on Oct 6, 2011 14:00:32 GMT -8
Does anyone know a good book on the history of the Aztec civilization?
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Post by Montezuma on Oct 6, 2011 14:18:05 GMT -8
I had a great text book on it. I took a Mexican History class at Southwestern College 2 years ago and the textbook for the course was outstanding also there were some great videos in the online class blackboard. I learned so much about the Aztec civilization in the course. The Aztecs were really resilient people. One thing the book pointed the city was beauiful; open markets, flowers brought in and a school system. They would sweep the streets everyday and take the dirt away off the island.
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Post by azson on Oct 6, 2011 15:51:21 GMT -8
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Post by AlwaysAnAztec on Oct 6, 2011 15:54:59 GMT -8
I think he has more than one. Very good. |
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Post by The Oracle on Oct 7, 2011 9:22:14 GMT -8
Yes, non-fiction
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Oct 8, 2011 9:18:19 GMT -8
Does anyone know a good book on the history of the Aztec civilization? See if you can find anything by A.J.O. Anderson. He taught at SDSU and was considered one of the foremost experts. It may not be easy though, since he retired around '70. =Bob |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2011 18:13:07 GMT -8
There is a program on KPBS tonight at 10 pm about the Aztecs
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Oct 27, 2011 15:09:15 GMT -8
One important thing to note is that the Aztecs were related to the Utes of Utah. The variance in language between the Utes and the Nahuatl speaking Aztecs would suggest a divergence about 1200 AD. The Utes stayed in place in what is now Mormon country and the Aztecs migrated to the south. The Aztecs were in control of the Valley of Mexico about 1450. They were so forceful that they created tremendous hatred with the neighboring tribes. Hernando Cortez exploited that hatred and used the neighboring tribes to defeat the Aztecs.
There is a lesson in there for the United States. We have created a great many enemies in the world. Perhaps we need to back off?
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Oct 29, 2011 6:26:48 GMT -8
One important thing to note is that the Aztecs were related to the Utes of Utah. The variance in language between the Utes and the Nahuatl speaking Aztecs would suggest a divergence about 1200 AD. The Utes stayed in place in what is now Mormon country and the Aztecs migrated to the south. The Aztecs were in control of the Valley of Mexico about 1450. They were so forceful that they created tremendous hatred with the neighboring tribes. Hernando Cortez exploited that hatred and used the neighboring tribes to defeat the Aztecs. Well, a lot of tribes are linked to the Uto-Aztecan language group, including the Luiseno bands in North County and the Chemhuevi on the Colorado River, so maybe they came from Utah and maybe not. =Bob |
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Oct 29, 2011 7:56:10 GMT -8
One important thing to note is that the Aztecs were related to the Utes of Utah. The variance in language between the Utes and the Nahuatl speaking Aztecs would suggest a divergence about 1200 AD. The Utes stayed in place in what is now Mormon country and the Aztecs migrated to the south. The Aztecs were in control of the Valley of Mexico about 1450. They were so forceful that they created tremendous hatred with the neighboring tribes. Hernando Cortez exploited that hatred and used the neighboring tribes to defeat the Aztecs. Well, a lot of tribes are linked to the Uto-Aztecan language group, including the Luiseno bands in North County and the Chemhuevi on the Colorado River, so maybe they came from Utah and maybe not. =Bob It is all conjecture, Bob, as nobody knows for certain. The majority of belief has it that the Aztec/Ute tribals migrated down from Alaska through Canada and into the areas of the states of Idaho, Utah and points south. A smaller school of belief has them migrating down the Pacific Coast. If that were so, there would be a potential for trace tribal people along the way, like on coastal Canada and Washington and Oregon. Last I read, years ago there were no traces of those people, so it looks like an inland corridor migration was the pathway. The Polynesian people were late migrators, too. Yet with them you can see the trace tribal elements on some islands of the far western Pacific. They (The Polynesians) had to fight their way through the Melanesian People (Mela means Black, and they look like African Blacks and were All Cannibals) to reach the islands of the Central Pacific (Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti....and eventually Hawaii and New Zealand) Fighting their way through the Melanesian Islands that had been settled over a thousand years earlier says an awful lot about the Polynesian people and the Samoans in particular. Everybody in the Pacific respected the Samoans as the the "Baddest Assed Mo Fo's that ever lived." Ironically they were B.A.M.F's to the Cannibals, but to Europeans they were eager to mingle (Except for the Hawaiians who bonked Cook on the head. Obviously, he did something to tick them off.) |
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Post by markyc on Oct 29, 2011 9:48:43 GMT -8
There is a program on KPBS tonight at 10 pm about the Aztecs Saw the program, it was awesome. Basically showed that Cortez did not just come in and freely lay waste to all Aztecs as previously thought, they found many Spanish skulls and bones in the graves that prove many Spanish were captured, held prisoner, and then sacraficed to the gods by having their beating heart pulled from their chests. |
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Oct 30, 2011 7:28:14 GMT -8
There is a program on KPBS tonight at 10 pm about the Aztecs Saw the program, it was awesome. Basically showed that Cortez did not just come in and freely lay waste to all Aztecs as previously thought, they found many Spanish skulls and bones in the graves that prove many Spanish were captured, held prisoner, and then sacraficed to the gods by having their beating heart pulled from their chests. That was one of their main problems - they saw warfare as a means to the end of capturing, not killing. =Bob |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2011 9:01:31 GMT -8
KPBS-a series "Secrets of the Dead" I think.........
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Jan 20, 2012 17:50:35 GMT -8
One important thing to note is that the Aztecs were related to the Utes of Utah. The variance in language between the Utes and the Nahuatl speaking Aztecs would suggest a divergence about 1200 AD. The Utes stayed in place in what is now Mormon country and the Aztecs migrated to the south. The Aztecs were in control of the Valley of Mexico about 1450. They were so forceful that they created tremendous hatred with the neighboring tribes. Hernando Cortez exploited that hatred and used the neighboring tribes to defeat the Aztecs. There is a lesson in there for the United States. We have created a great many enemies in the world. Perhaps we need to back off? Please note the fact that I've ignored your sorry, ignorant ass. Please feel free to run back to Wikipedia when you offer another bogus argument. Please feel free to understand that you are a pompous ass without a clue. =Bob |
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