Fifth Sun
Fifth Sun In November 1519, Hernando Cort s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. After all, we have been taught, it was the…
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Fifth Sun
In November 1519, Hernando Cort s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards.
Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars.For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Camilla Townsend presents an accessible and humanized depiction of these native