In " Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico, " the National Gallery of Art has mounted a stunning show that offers a long overdue glimpse at a little-known society that set the tone for the great Mayan and Aztec civilizations that would follow much later.
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The book went further, much further _ all the way across the causeway and into Tenochtitlan ( today's Mexico City ) where the Spanish dismembered an advanced Aztec civilization which seemed to have but one fault : Aztecs tore out people's hearts as a religious ritual.
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The only way that Greendog can lift the curse is to travel to a lost Aztec civilization and track down six pieces of a sacred Aztec treasure which were scattered across the Caribbean Islands, so that the pieces can be put back together, and ultimately so that Greendog can remove both the curse and the pendant.
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Using information he had collected during his time spent travelling there, as well as that compiled by other scholars of his time, he published in 1857 1859 a history of the Aztec civilization, containing what was then known or speculated about the former empire, which had been overrun and defeated some three hundred years previously by the Spanish conquistadores in alliance with local enemies of the Aztecs.
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Jesuit Friar Jos?Lino F�bregas he born in San Miguel de Tegucigalpa and who would conduct its studies at the University of Mexico and conducted extensive research on the Aztec civilization in that country, F�bregas was withdrawn of the brotherhood due to his works published for teaching in Italian " EZPLICAZIONES DELLE FIGURE HIEROFICHE DEL CODICE BORGIANO MESSICANO, DEDICATA AL ECCELESTISSIMO E REVERENDISSIMO PRINCIPEIL SIGNORE CARIDINALES BORGIA " .
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Although numerous battles were fought between the Aztec Empire and the Spanish-led coalition, which was itself composed primarily of indigenous ( mostly Tlaxcaltec ) personnel, it was the siege of Tenochtitlan its outcome probably largely determined by the effects of a smallpox epidemic ( which devastated the Aztec population and dealt a severe blow to the Aztec leadership while leaving an immune Spanish leadership intact ) that directly led to the downfall of the Aztec civilization and marked the end of the first phase of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
