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• 1.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 1
• Modern Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world. Once it was a wilderness area. A valley of saltwater lakes and swamps, surrounded by mou...
• 2.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 2
• When the Spanish conquistador s first saw the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, it was so beautiful. They thought they were dreaming. They called it the ...
• 3.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 3
• At the edge of the valley 30 miles north, the Aztecs came upon an abandoned place called Teotihuacan. People had first settled in this place a thousan...
• 4.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 4
• In this remarkable story we see not only the idea of Teotihuacan as the primordial origin of the Aztec sun, we also see the participation of the gods ...
• 5.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 5
• To pacify the forces of nature, the Aztecs turn not just to the gods but to their own sophisticated technology. They had seen the eagle land on a salt...
• 6.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 6
• As precious as jade is how the Aztecs describe their capital---Tenochtitlan. The Great Pyramid or the Templo Mayor as it's known honored the two most ...
• 7.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 7
• Over 50 different varieties of plants have been identified. Flowers and seeds were a vital ingredient of offerings which the Aztecs buried in the foun...
• 8.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 8
• The goddess's portrayed as the decapitate d figure, two great serpents representing streams of blood flow from her neck. For archaeologist Elizabeth B...
• 9.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 9
• As a purification ceremony, frankincense or copal may have been burnt in these huge brazier s depicting Tlaloc, the rain god. Most telling of all, the...
• 10.Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 10
• Victims were tether ed to the center and provided only with dummy weapons. Warriors fought them to the death. Both Aztecs and their enemies were sacri...