{"product_id":"the-aztec-empire-war-sacrifice-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-ancient-mexicos-most-feared-civilization-9798258802057","title":"The Aztec Empire: War, Sacrifice, and the Rise and Fall of Ancient Mexico's Most Feared Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eva Myers\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey built paradise. Then they drowned it in blood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the Spanish ever set foot on Mexican soil, the greatest empire in the Americas was already destroying itself from within. The Aztec Empire tells the story most history books are afraid to tell fully, not just the conquest, but the centuries of brilliant, brutal, and ultimately self-defeating choices that made the fall inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew people know that the Aztec empire was not conquered by Spanish steel. It was surrendered by a hundred thousand indigenous soldiers who had suffered under Aztec brutality long enough to fight against it. The Spanish did not defeat the Aztecs. The Aztecs defeated themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you are about to discover will change how you see power, governance, and the price of ruling through fear. Inside these pages you will follow a wandering tribe across centuries of migration, watch them build the most sophisticated city in the ancient world, and witness how a civilization capable of universal education and functioning courts also tore beating hearts from living bodies as a matter of daily worship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a simple story of good versus evil. It is something far more unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for readers who want the full picture, the politics, the economics, the social machinery, and the human cost of an empire that could not stop expanding until expansion destroyed it. If you have ever wondered why great civilizations fall, the Aztecs left behind the most detailed answer in human history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883403034775,"sku":"9798258802057","price":1413.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258802057.webp?v=1781101659","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-aztec-empire-war-sacrifice-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-ancient-mexicos-most-feared-civilization-9798258802057","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}