#BooksThatInfluencedYou
#Aztec by #GaryJennings

(5/5)

Day 16:

...ends with a surprise ending in 1531.
Highly recommended and fun to read.

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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
#Aztec by #GaryJennings

(4/n)

Day 16:

...what was then Lake #Texcoco in the Valley of #Mexico.

They spoke (and many still speak) #Nahuatl.

This first book provides an understanding of the roots of modern-day #Mexico.
Seen chronologically, the book starts in 1466, when the fictious Mexícan narrator is born. The book...

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#Aztec by #GaryJennings

(3/n)

Day 16:

...in 2012 (#AztecRevenge.)

Now, the first thing to know is that there were no #Aztecs. This people who, according to legend, migrated to the swamps what later on became #Tenochtitlán, nowadays the historic Center of #MexicoCity, were called the #Mexica. Back then, it was an island in...

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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
#Aztec by #GaryJennings

(2/n)

Day 16:

...Even though it is historical fiction, he works with a lot of love for historical detail. Alas, #GaryJennimgs died in 1999, and so he could only complete the first two of a total of 6 of this #AztecSeries, the other's were written much later than the first one (1980), the last...

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(1/n)
Day 16:

@mina
So, Mina, bird of a feather, thanks for the inspiration for today, or rather moving it forward in the pipeline. 😏

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There was a time when I used to read all about #Mesoamerica's early history that I could get my hands on. One of the books was #Aztec by #GaryJennings.

Even...

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