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History's ancient legacies: empires in the Americas
The American civilizations of the Aztecs and Incas had many features in common. Both flourished before the arrival of the Europeans. Both worshipped the sun. Both built great cities. Both possessed huge amounts of gold and other treasures. And both ...
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The conquest of Mexico:
This program provides a portrait of Cortez and his world - the real world and the imaginary one painted by theologians, mystics, imaginative travelers, poets, and liars; of the New World as seen by a small number of Spaniards; and of the civilizatio...