The Conquistadors Found Gold. The Aztecs Were Mourning Their Jade.
When Hernán Cortés and his soldiers marched into Tenochtitlán in November 1519, they catalogued
everything — gold shields, feathered cloaks, obsidian blades. What they fundamentally
misunderstood was which treasure the Aztecs considered sacred beyond all others. It was not gold.
It...
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