Montezuma II: The End of the Aztec Empire

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Source/Further reading:

Unbelievably epic, 4 hr podcast on the entire history of the Aztecs: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR...
BBC In Our Time on the Aztecs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005...
BBC In Our Times on the siege of Tenochtitlan: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016...
Good overview of the conquest from the Spanish side: https://www.historyextra.com/period/t...
Nat Geo’s version of the same: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Very detailed bio of Montezuma: https://www.ancient.eu/Montezuma/
History’s take: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
Montezuma before the Spanish: https://www.thoughtco.com/emperor-mon...
Aztec human sacrifice: https://www.history.com/news/aztec-hu...
Montezuma’s coronation stone: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75644/...
Overview of the Aztec Empire: https://www.history.com/topics/ancien...
Aztec history in detail: https://www.ancient.eu/Aztec_Civiliza...
What was life like for a regular Aztec person? https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
Map of the Aztec Empire pre-conquest: https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubo...
How the empire grew over time: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Other source on the Aztec campaigns in Tehuantepec and Xoconochco: https://books.google.cz/books?id=fh29...
Ahuitzotl: https://www.ancient.eu/Ahuitzotl/
Xoconochco conquest: https://books.google.cz/books?id=JQeA...