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Aug 13, 2022
3 minutes
FLOWER POWER
t was a pleasure to read “City Politics” in the July/August 2022 issue of ARCHAEOLOGY and the emerging perspective that the democratic organization of the Tlaxcallan helped them fend off the more powerful Aztec Empire. A more mainstream explanation of how the small political entity of the Tlaxcallan managed to endure surrounded for more than 100 years was the Aztec need for a strong—but not too powerful—opponent for the , or “flowered war.” This was ritual
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