BBC World Histories Magazine

Legacy, lineage and laughter

The Aztecs had a history of their own

he indigenous historical annals reveal that prior to conquest, the Aztecs had a well-documented and detailed history, complete with wars, rising and falling kings, political marriages, palace plots and executions. Men always ruled, but women were important, for in a world where each prince had many wives, the question of  

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