Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest

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"Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest"
(Soustelle, Jacques, 1962)
Introduction
The ancient Aztecs were relentless speech-makers and lovers of poetry. They were also exceptional record keepers who used pictographic system to preserve their history, geography as well as the rituals records. Most of the accounts kept were destroyed immediately after Spanish conquest. Conversely, some of them have survived and among them were stored by the invaders. The book "Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest" by an archaeology and sociology authority in Mexico helps present a vibrant story of an overwhelmingly religious Aztec combatant society. It presents the collective days as a primitive people of the early 16th C in the eve of a powerful rule of the Spanish conquest where the government was well functioning with able ability and efforts of the Spaniards. In the book, there are rare images of the temples located at Tenayuca and Tenochtitlán, worshiped Aztec gods, human sacrifice, people’s weddings, the midnight revelry of warriors, among many other several issues and text that illustrates the challenges in such a big city state, the rulers and the standards of living, religious viewpoints, and daily lives of the inhabitants.
Book Summary
Soustelle’s purpose is studying the architecture of the society he is part of. Soustelle provides a sharp insight into many well turned observations. It is a very knowledgeable and clear book among the dualist cultures which have achieved inspiring imagining being. The Aztec life here explains how the Mexica at eve, had the historical culture condensation. The book is therefore one of the society’s a fabulous book. This is gives an exciting observation given how valiant’s Soustelle wrote it in a precise way. He embellishes his representation of Mexico. This book presents great eve of Aztecs’ scholarship understanding. He writes the Aztecs dating the complex culture taking us deep into the time of Mexico thus inspires the imagination of being a triumph. It also takes us further in to last bits of the journey from their society. The outstanding translation presents the visualization of the mountains crashed. This is a very thrilling examination of the Aztecs material (1962). The author’s great society different from the one illustrated before the wonder of entering. He uses his studying and literary skills to embellish his book. The story does not just provide an insight but also a first life level as well as architecture rituals.
Reaction of the Material
The book is a fabulous narration because of the many aspects that connect to the best ever written about story the Aztecs. Hispanic American in this book provides the historical parts that explain how to study and conquer them thus imprisoning Montezuma (2006). He had in his book one of the greatest visualization ever managed in history narration. The book has an amazing scope and in detail and the work is of value to scholars from Mexico and anyone with fascinated interest in the book’s ancient civilization. For the Mexican students among other students in nee...