SPANISH · THE AZTEC WORLD
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The Aztec World
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El día que se rompió el mundo
INHABITANT · B2
November 8, 1519. Two columns walk toward each other on the same causeway.
El fuego nuevo
VISITOR · A1
Every fire in the world goes out. The whole city waits in the dark.
The actual words a midwife spoke to every newborn — recorded verbatim.
For one year he walks the city as a living god. He knows how it ends.
Merchants by daylight. Spies by profession. The empire never admits they exist.
The Anales names all five men. And the neighborhood each one came from.
The soldiers wake to smoke on the horizon. The ships are already burning.
A real poet, asking the civilization's deepest question, on the eve of a fall he cannot see.
Sold by her own mother. Translator for the man dismantling the world that enslaved her.
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PRIMARY SOURCE · ca. 1577
Los ocho presagios
Florentine Codex, Book 12 — Bernardino de Sahagún & the Nahua scholars of Tlatelolco
PRIMARY SOURCE · written ca. 1568 · first published 1632
La primera vista de Tenochtitlan
Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España, Ch. 87 — Bernal Díaz del Castillo
PRIMARY SOURCE · shortly after 1521
La caída de Tlatelolco
Anales de Tlatelolco, Ms Mex 22 — Anonymous Tlatelolca authors
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El día que se rompió el mundo
INHABITANT · B2
November 8, 1519. Two columns walk toward each other on the same causeway.
El fuego nuevo
VISITOR · A1
Every fire in the world goes out. The whole city waits in the dark.
The actual words a midwife spoke to every newborn — recorded verbatim.
For one year he walks the city as a living god. He knows how it ends.
Merchants by daylight. Spies by profession. The empire never admits they exist.
The Anales names all five men. And the neighborhood each one came from.
The soldiers wake to smoke on the horizon. The ships are already burning.
A real poet, asking the civilization's deepest question, on the eve of a fall he cannot see.
Sold by her own mother. Translator for the man dismantling the world that enslaved her.
Two boys born in London the same day — one a prince, one a pauper. For a joke they trade clothes, and neither can get his life back.
La sirenita
EXPLORER · B1
A sea king's youngest daughter trades her voice — and her whole world below — for a chance at a human soul.