Aztec Perspective on First Contact with Europeans // 16th cent. Florentine Codex // Primary Source (Video)

Mountains on the sea that signalled the coming apocalypse. This was the news that terrified the Aztecs and most of all their leader Moctezuma II. Here we have their description of first contact with Europe, researched and written down by Bernardino de Sahagún and the Nahuatl people throughout the second half of the 16th century.

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