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The Aztecs deliberated on how to continue their traditions and preserve their group identity following the Spanish invasion.
Owls, once seen as harbingers of death, are now celebrated in popular literature and culture in North America and Britain.
An anthropologist writes that despite best efforts, there is no guarantee that children may not have been exploited in the production process of chocolate.
A Mexican-American scholar writes that in the 1700s, Day of the Dead generated the largest annual market in Mexico City.
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox virus. Disease epidemics can set the course of human history.
Despite new findings, the deaths can’t be blamed on enteric fever alone.
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