Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan — a tributary empire of ~38 provinces, its capital among the largest cities on earth.
Tenochtitlan fell to Cortés and ~100,000 Native allies on 13 August 1521 and was rebuilt as Mexico City.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Aztec Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 1325 · 1428 · 1486.
The standard single-volume archaeological and ethnohistorical overview of Aztec society, economy, and empire, now in its third edition.
The definitive scholarly study of how the Triple Alliance was actually organized, mapping its 38 tributary provinces and modes of control — directly relevant to the empire's drawn extent.
The vivid firsthand eyewitness account by a soldier in Cortés's army, the essential primary source for the conquest and fall of Tenochtitlan (widely available in modern translation).
An award-winning narrative history that reconstructs the Aztec world and the conquest primarily from Nahuatl-language sources and the Indigenous point of view.
A concise, authoritative corrective that dismantles popular misconceptions about the conquest, including the roles of Native allies and disease in Tenochtitlan's fall.
Indigenous Nahuatl accounts of Aztec society and the Spanish conquest, drawn largely from the same sixteenth-century sources as the Florentine Codex.
Mexica life and the Spanish conquest through one long native life.
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