[troutman]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Anyway, I'm a big non-fiction (history, autobiography, etc) fan, and just finished a fantastic book called Conquistador, by Buddy Levy. It's about the fall of the Aztec empire, courtesy of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, and is written in narrative, created from dozens and dozens of first hand accounts and letters/journal entries done by Cortes and many of the men with him. While Aztec society didn't have a true, full written language pre-contact, keeping their side more minimized, there are still some entries from some Aztecs who were there during the fall of Tenochtitlan, giving you a sense of the Aztec view of the fall of their empire.

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