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Find out moreVideo: ‘The Native Conquest of the Aztecs’
30th May 2023
Mexicolore contributor Gilbert Estrada
We’re pleased to share here an engaging new (2023) myth-busting teaching resource ‘The Native Conquest of the Aztecs: How Indigenous, not the Spanish, defeated Mexico-Tenochtitlan’, produced by Professor Gilbert Estrada of Long Beach City College, California. Many thanks, Gilbert!
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Mexicolore contributor Gilbert Estrada
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