Ancient Peoples of the Americas

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Aztec Sacrifice. Post-Conquest Nahua Painting, c. 1560.

(Priests hold excavated heart to sun atop teocalli)

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Plaza Mayor, Tenochtitlan, with teocallis dedicated to

Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl.

(Model in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology)

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Moctezuma Beholds Comet as Omen from Rooftop.

Post-Conquest Nahua Painting c. 1560.

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"The Storming of the Teocalli." (1848). Emmanuel Leutze.

(Cortez with stout armored band fights his way back into Tenochtitlan, June, 1520.)

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Detail from Massacre of the Rain Dancers by

Alvarado's Soldiers. Post-Conquest Nahua Painting, c. 1560.

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The Great Aztec Sunstone/Calendar Stone

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Painting. "Coming of the White Man." (1850) Joshua Shaw.

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Engraving. "Spanish Roasting Tainos." c. 1600.

Theodore de Bry.

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