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Tenochtitlan: The Aztec Capital That Shocked the Spanish — Fexingo History

When Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors first glimpsed Tenochtitlan in 1519, they thought they were dreaming. Rising from an island in Lake Texcoco, the Aztec capital was a marvel of engineering,…

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