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Richard F. Townsend

Auteur van The Aztecs

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Richard Townsend is now Curator of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Bevat de namen: Richard Fraser Townsend, Richard F. Editor Townsend

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Townsend, Richard F.
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Townsend, Richard Fraser
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The Aztecs door Richard F Townsend
Not new information, but well presented. Shows the power of Destiny. The conqueror, in his home base, is today one of the nations on the brink of financial disaster. More evidence of dastardly Destiny?
 
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rajaratnam | 1 andere bespreking | Jun 19, 2010 |
The Aztecs door Richard F. Townsend
Today the Aztecs seem a remote, alien people. Warlike and bloodthirsty, they are best known as the practitioners of human sacrifice. Yet their creative achievements are impressive: within the space of a hundred years they established the largest empire in Mesoamerican history, and at Tenochtitlan built a vast, shimmering city in a lake, a Venice of the New World whose temple-pyramids, elegant plazas and thronging markets defied the descriptive powers
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9
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474
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#52,001
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3.9
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2
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21
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2

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