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Source/Further reading:

4 hr podcast on the history of the Aztecs: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR...

BBC Future video: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

Map of the city: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/...

MET Overview: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ten...

Some extensive details: https://www.livescience.com/34660-ten...

Templo Mayor: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ten...

Human Sacrifice: https://www.historyextra.com/period/a...

History of Sacrifice: https://www.ancient.eu/Aztec_Sacrifice/

BBC In Our Time on the Aztecs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005...

BBC In Our Time on the siege of Tenochtitlan: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016...

Good overview of the conquest from the Spanish side: https://www.historyextra.com/period/t...

Nat Geo’s version of the same: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...

History’s take: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...

Overview of the Aztec Empire: https://www.history.com/topics/ancien...

Aztec history in detail: https://www.ancient.eu/Aztec_Civiliza...

What was life like for a regular Aztec person? https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

Aztec Law: https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/aztec-...

Map of the Aztec Empire pre-conquest: https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubo...

Another map! https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubo...

How the empire grew over time: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...