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Here are three interconnected lessons intended to build an understanding of life in Mexico prior to and after contact with Spain. Learners take a "trip" to Tenochtitlan through a series of images, read The Evil of Tezcatilipoca and The Return of Quetzalcoatl, then hear a lecture on the fall of the Aztec empire.

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mexican history, mexico, tenochtitlan, the aztecs

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aztecs, mexican history, spanish conquest, tenochtitlan, ancient mexico, spanish in mexico, social studies
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7th - 9th
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Social Studies & History
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