THOMASJ. BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/aztecshistoryOOOOdavi THE AZTECS By the same author Los Senorios Independientes del Imperio Azteca Los Mexica. Primeros Pasos Hacia el Imperio THE AZTECS A HISTORY Nigel Davies Iron! University Library pgXtSBOROUOM* ONT. G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK First American Edition 1974 Copyright © 1973 by Nigel Davies All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission. SBN: 399-11331-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-92395 Extracts from The Bernal Diaz Chronicles translated and edited by Albert Idell, New York, 1956, are reprinted by permission of the Barthold Fles Literary Agency. Printed in the United States of America