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Article: Map With A Legend: Rare Woodcut Of Aztec City Finds Its Way Back To Yale.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2007
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Byline: Kim Martineau
Jan. 24--The island city of the Aztecs was the Venice of the so-called New World. Causeways stretched over a salt lake, past canals and floating gardens. A grand market overflowed with exotic vegetables, medicinal herbs and fine jewelry. Awestruck, Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes took it in. The metropolis of Tenochtitlan looked as if it had materialized from the pages of a Spanish romance novel. Here was the fame and fortune Cortes had sought. But Cortes had a problem. The governor of Cuba had not authorized his travels or given him permission to trade or claim lands. A trespasser in need of legitimacy, Cortes wrote directly to the ...
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